The Greater Inclination

MP3 Audio CD. This was one of the first collections of short stories by Edith Wharton. The collection contained 7 short stories, and one short drama in two acts, such as The Muse's Tragedy; A Journey; The Pelican; Souls Belated; A Coward; The Twilight of the God; A Cup of Cold Water; The Portrait.

Edith Wharton born as Edith Newbold Jones was awarded a Pulitzer Prize as an American author, short story writer, and designer. She was one of the nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton brought together her insights of the United States? honored classes with brilliance and intelligence to invent farcical, fathomable books and short stories of social and psychological views. She had many friends with her other literary and dominant personalities, such as Theodore Roosevelt.

Her parents were George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone in New York City. Her elder brothers were Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. She was nicknamed as Pussy Jones to her friends and family. The quote "keeping up with the Joneses" is said to speak of their family. The Rensselaer family were their close relatives, the very sophisticated of the old landholder families. She had a close and jolly friendship with her Rhinelander niece, landscape architect Beatrix Farrand of Reef Point in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Although, her first novel was published when she turned 40, she was successful in becoming an amazingly prolific novelist. She had a total of 15 novels, 7 novellas, and 85 short stories, and she even wrote poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir.

Edith Wharton started making tales at the age of 6. She paced in their living room carrying a book while reading aloud her story. She drafted a short work and make her mother read it. Her mother disapproved her work, so she agreed to draft poetry.