Description:
Besides the title story "Xingu", there are 7 other Wharton stories, culminating in the longer story "Bunner Sisters". Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age of Innocence
Red cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Fading at bottom of spine for publisher's name "Scribner's"; other lettering very good; some fading of the Red spine; corners showing wear; still, G+ or better for a book of this vintage.
Jan. 1862-Aug. 1937.
