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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Touchstone by Edith Wharton

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "The Touchstone" by Edith Wharton about a man who plagiarizes love letters for financial gain.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of "Bunner Sisters" by Edith Wharton about two sisters barely making a living running a small shop. Their mundane lives change one day when they meet a local clockmaker.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the masterpiece "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton. A synopsis is included.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Fulness of Life by Edith Wharton

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the short story The Fulness Of Life by Edith Wharton. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Dilettante by Edith Wharton

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the short story The Dilettante by Edith Wharton.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Zaida Ben Yusuf: Edith Wharton

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about American novelist Edith Wharton, accompanied by a photograph taken by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "The Early Short Fiction 2"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Edith Wharton's short fiction, titled "The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two."
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Personal or Social Tragedy? Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan will challenge students to weigh the textual evidence for and against the claim that Ethan's woes lay in staying in Starkfield-and not in the details of his personal relationships. In the process, students will close...
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "The Early Short Fiction"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Edith Wharton's short fiction, titled "The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part One."
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "The Glimpses of the Moon"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Edith Wharton's story, "The Glimpses of the Moon."
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "House of Mirth"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Edith Wharton's story, "House of Mirth."
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "The Reef"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Edith Wharton's story, "The Reef."
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of "The Touchstone"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext for Edith Wharton's story, "The Touchstone."
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Ethan Frome" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This study guide for Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" provides pre-reading material (author biography, novel setting, vocabulary lists), brainstorming activities, and writing prompts. Students who have completed reading the novel can...
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment of the Arts: The Big Read: The Age of Innocence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Guide to Edith Wharton's, The Age of Innocence, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including discussion activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics.
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New York University

Nyu: Literature, Arts and Medicine Database

For Students 9th - 10th
NYU's Literature, Arts and Medicine Database is a collection of writings, art and film that encompass the medical humanities. Full texts of fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction are available, as well as artworks and film clips. Summary...
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Curated OER

National Portrait Gallery: Zaida Ben Yusuf: Edith Wharton: Photo

For Students 9th - 10th
Black and white photograph of American novelist Edith Wharton, taken by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: The Mount (Edith Warton Estate)

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed by writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) and built in 1902, The Mount is where she wrote the bestselling novel The House of Mirth. It is now a house museum.
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Etext of Bunner Sisters

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the complete etext to Edith Wharton's Bunner Sisters.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Verdict

For Students 7th - 9th
"The Verdict" by Edith Wharton is a short story that essentially questions what makes art good or bad. Read the full text on this site.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: The Valley of Decision

For Students 9th - 10th
This e-text from the University of Virginia's e-text library provides a contemporary (1902) review of Edith Wharton's "The Valley of Decision" by Frederick Taber Cooper. The review originally appeared in Cooper's book "Nine Books of Some...
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TES Global

Blendspace: E3: Novel Ethan Frome

For Students 9th - 10th
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, slides, texts, websites, videos, and quizzes to use while reading Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Ethan Frome

For Students 9th - 10th
Written by Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome is a fascinating novella that is looked at in depth in this interesting and informative site.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: House of Mirth

For Students 9th - 10th
Published in 1905 this novel portrays the life of a young woman in her hunt for a rich husband. Read about the main characters, their themes and interesting quotations in this outstanding site.

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