by Vikk Simmons (Foreword by), Vikk Simmons (Author), Edith Wharton (Author)
Modern readers will love this edition of Edith Wharton's classic short story XINGU. Edith Wharton's popular classic short story XINGU and her essay THE VICE OF READING, plus a Reader's Discussion Guide all in one provides a unique edition that offers an individual reader, as well as book club members, opportunity for discussion and reflection.
Downtown Abbey fans will enjoy discovering the meaning of Xingu, along with Mrs. Ballinger and the Ladies of the Lunch Club. This edition contains the following features:
- Complete annotated and unabridged text of Wharton's short story XINGU
- Additional complete essay The Vice of Reading and Reader's Guide
- Biographical information about Edith Wharton
- Backstory on the writing of Xingu
- Notes about Wharton's works and her writing career
- Complete list of Edith Wharton's short stories
- Link to audio version of XINGU
- Information about the woman featured on the book's cover
- Information on the Short Works Reading Challenge
Author Biography
Edith Wharton, author of Xingu and The Vice of Reading, was a prolific writer. She wrote both fiction and nonfiction and loved to write about things that interested her. That's why you'll find essays, design books, books on houses and gardens, travel books, and a book on writing, as well as novels, novellas, and short stories. She wrote 38 novels and novellas, and well over 85 short stories. Although she wrote her first novel at the age of eleven, her mother's cold reception dampened her enthusiasm. In later years, many adored Wharton's novel Ethan Frome, but she won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence. Even today, her novel The House of Mirth continues to draw readers.