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  • Bibliography:
    137 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1905
  • Latest Book:
    May 2016
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Book List in Order: 137 titles

  • The House of Mirth

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    'She had been fashioned to adorn and delight.' Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarri...

  • Ethan Frome

    Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironi...

  • Summer

    Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening.

    Summer is the story of Cha...

  • The Age of Innocence

    The Gilded Age. .The Age of Innocence. Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the ki...

  • Roman Fever and Other Stories

    While visiting Rome with their daughters, two middle-aged women reminisce about their romantic rivalry for the dashing Delphin Slade. Although Mrs. Slade admits to falsifying the letter that led to her eventual marriage to Slade, Mrs. Ansley holds he...

  • Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

    One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, "...till I was twenty-seven or -eight, I could...

  • Hudson River Bracketed

    One of Edith Wharton''s unjustly neglected novels, Hudson River Bracketed features two strong protagonists - Vance Weston and Halo Spear. The former is an undereducated young man who arrives in New York with a keen desire to write. Halo Spear is a br...

  • Edith Wharton: Novels

    The four novels in this Library of America volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy. In all of them her strong and autobio...

  • The Gods Arrive

    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''The Gods Arrive'' is a sequel to ''Hudson River Bracketed'' in which the characters, Halo and Vance, try to co...



  • The Muse's Tragedy and Other Stories

  • Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings

    Collected in this Library of America volume are no fewer than six of the works of Edith Wharton: novels, novellas, and her renowned autobiography, A Backward Glance. Together they represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of t...

  • The Children

    Tired of being shuttled back and forth among their parents, seven stepbrothers and stepsisters find an ally and protector in Martin Boyne, the forty-six-year-old bachelor in love with the children's fifteen-year-old sister...

  • The Buccaneers

    "Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton''s The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents'' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the ...

  • The Glimpses of the Moon

    Two New York society folks, Susy Branch and Nick Lansing, decide to marry -- for business reasons, as it were. They're in love, all right, but neither of them has enough money to live life the way they think it ought to be lived. They'll get marri...

  • Short Stories

    "Described by literary critic Robert Morss Lovett as ""a novelist of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of culture, preoccupied with the upper ('and inner') cla...

  • Wharton's New England Wharton's New England Wharton's New England Wharton's New England Wharton's New En: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome Seven Stories

    Although Edith Wharton is usually identified with the "old New York" of such masterworks as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, she spent ten years living and writing in New England, a setting that appears in two novels, a novella, and fully...

  • Old New York

    The four short novels in this collection by the author of The Age of Innocence are set in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, each one revealing the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniqu...

  • Penguin 60's

    Set in Paris, Wharton's 1907 novel explores the theme she and Henry James so often examined; the conflict between American innocence and corrupt Europe. Inside This Book (Learn More) Browse and search another edition of this book. Browse Sample Pages...

  • In Morocco

    First published in 1919, this detailed account of the author's journey through Morocco following World War I shares Wharton's observations on local customs and lifestyles, Moroccan history, cities, and more. Reprint....



  • Souls Belated

    She stayed there for a long time, in the hypnotized contemplation, not of Mrs. Cope's present, but of her own past. Gannett, early that morning, had gone off on a long walk--he had fallen into the habit of taking these mountain tramps with various fe...

  • The Mother's Recompense

    Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infan...

  • Wharton: Four Novels

    Born into an exclusive New York society of elegant manners and rigid codes, Edith Wharton drew on her background to create fiction both trenchantly observant and nostalgic, a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy. The House of Mirth traces, thro...

  • The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural

    Readers of The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth, and the recently filmed The Age of Innocence may be surprised to learn that Edith Wharton, known for her elegant narrative style, described herself as someone with an intense Celtic sense of the supernat...

  • The Writing of Fiction

    A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize - for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides genera...

  • Twilight Sleep

    Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing -- thes...

  • Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910

    Library of America presents the first volume in a landmark two-volume collector's edition of the incomparable stories of an American master. Born into an upper-class New York family, Edith Wharton broke with convention and became a professional wri...

  • Edith Wharton: Vol.2 Collected Stories 1911-1937

    Over the course of a long and astonishingly productive literary career that stretched from the early 1890s to just before World War II, Edith Wharton published nearly a dozen story collections, leaving a body of work as various as it is enduring. Wit...

  • Tales of Men and Ghosts

    EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) was one of the most remarkable women of her time, and her immense commercial and critical success-most notably with her novel 'The Age of Innocense' (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize-have long overshadowed her small but dis...

  • The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton

    Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive c...



  • The Custom of the Country

    Edith Wharton''s satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had ...

  • The Descent of Man and Other Stories

    Born into the hoi polloi of New York society in 1862, Edith Wharton married in 1885, and that marriage was a disappointment -- she may well have been born and bred to be a society wife, but she was a woman with talent, and it was a talent that wou...

  • Sanctuary

    As her marriage to an eminent and wealthy bachelor approaches, Kate Orme should feel nothing but bliss. But when she learns of Denis's guilty secret, she becomes painfully aware of her fiancé's flawed morality. Determined that no child of hers shoul...

  • Bunner Sisters

    Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. Bunner Sisters is a novel about the life of two women, who owned a shop called Bunner Sisters in New York, "in the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse...

  • Selected Shorts

    Four stories writtenby the great American fiction writer Edith Wharton and read byterrific actors, includingMaria Tucciand Kathleen Chalfant, make up thistwo-CD set, recorded live at The Mount, Wharton's house and gardens which she designed and built...

  • The Demanding Dead

    With eight outstanding ghost stories, this collection highlights Edith Wharton's ability to switch genres seemingly without effort. The same literary genius evident in her best known works such as The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The House of M...

  • The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

    A New York Review Books Original Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops' nieces ming...

  • Kerfol

    I left my light burning all night, as he had predicted; but it was chiefly because, till near dawn, I was absorbed in my reading. The account of the trial of Anne de Cornault, wife of the lord of Kerfol, was long and closely printed. It was, as my fr...

  • Fighting France

    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Madame de Treymes

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...



  • Inventing the Real

    Ironies upon ironies unfold as two kindred writers (in life as well as art) and masters of the short story dance along the border between reality and appearance. Wharton explores the secret love of a woman for her illegitimate daughter, whom her marr...

  • The House of the Dead Hand & the Reckoning & Xingu

  • The Fruit of the Tree

    Edith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works exhibit a mastery over the realistic fiction genre. Although she grew up in a world of refined manners and fashionable people, she was also aware of its superficiality, a...

  • The Collected Short Stories Of Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre. Although she grew up in a world of refined manners and fashionable people, she was also aware of its superficiality,...

  • Certain People

    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Here And Beyond

    Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She grew up in upper-class pre-WWI society and many of her stories critique this culture, using subtle irony. Here and Beyond was written in 1926 and ...

  • The Old Maid

    In the old New York of the 'fifties a few families ruled, in simplicityand affluence. Of these were the Ralstons.The sturdy English and the rubicund and heavier Dutch had mingled toproduce a prosperous, prudent and yet lavish society. To do thingshan...

  • The World Over

    The World Over was Wharton's last collection of stories, and typifies her elegant style and a feminist perspective that was ahead of its time. The collection includes one of her best-loved stories Roman Fever, which features two middle-aged American ...

  • The Dilettante

    The "as usual" was his own qualification of the act; a convenient way of bridging the interval-in days and other sequences-that lay between this visit and the last. It was characteristic of him that he instinctively excluded his call two days earlier...

  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

    The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Part One KERFOL MRS. MANSTEY'S VIEW THE BOLTED DOOR THE DILETTANTE THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD HAND Part Two AFTERWAR THE FULNESS OF LIFE A VENETIAN NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT XINGU THE VERDICT THE RECKONING Edith W...



  • The Fulness of Life

    At last even these dim sensations spent themselves in the thickening obscurity which enveloped her; a dusk now filled with pale geometric roses, circling softly, interminably before her, now darkened to a uniform blue-blackness, the hue of a summer n...

  • Mrs. Manstey's View

    In the very next enclosure did not a magnolia open its hard white flowers against the watery blue of April? And was there not, a little way down the line, a fence foamed over every May be lilac waves of wistaria? Farther still, a horse-chestnut lifte...

  • Seven Short Stories

    Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her Pulitzer Pr...

  • The Choice

    Stilling, that night after dinner, had surpassed himself. He always did, Wrayford reflected, when the small fry from Highfield came to dine. He, Cobham Stilling, who had to find his bearings and keep to his level in the big heedless ironic world of N...

  • The Triumph of Night

    The Triumph Of Night is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobe...

  • A Backward Glance

    This antiquarian volume contains 'A Backward Glance', Edith Wharton's detailed account of her life, both pubic and private. She describes in a dazzling yet delicate manner, the upper-class New York society within which much of her youth was spent. Th...

  • The Confessional

    The Confessional is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Priz...

  • Copy: A Dialogue

    "Copy" A Dialogue is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize...

  • The Duchess at Prayer

    The Duchess at Prayer is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel...

  • A Journey

    A Journey is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Li...

  • The Letters

    The Letters is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in ...

  • The Moving Finger

    The Moving Finger is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Pri...

  • The Pot-Boiler

    The Pot-Boiler is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize ...

  • The Pretext

    The Pretext is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Li...

  • The Verdict

    The Verdict is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in ...

  • The Angel at the Grave

    The Angel at the Grave is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobe...

  • The Touchstone and Xingu

    Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combine...

  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton ? Part 1

    " ...]irrelevance, of littleness, of childish bravado, in sitting there puffing my cigarette-smoke into the face of such a past. I knew nothing of the history of Kerfol-I was new to Brittany, and Lanrivain had never mentioned the name to me till the ...

  • Artemis to Actaeon

  • The Decoration of Houses

    This classic works on The Decoration of Houses was originally published in 1897, With chapters including; The Historical Tradition - Rooms in general - Entrance and Vestibule and The school room & nurseries much of the information is still useful...

  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton - Part I

  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton - Part II

  • After Holbein

    A pair of elderly New York socialites, Anson Warley and Evelina Jasper, reveal the tragedy of the decay that comes with old age. Believing that they are sharing an extravagant meal at a busy dinner party, Anson and Evelina relive a night from thei...

  • Ghost Stories

    Ten ghostly tales of the Gilded Age from one of America's finest writers -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), author of "The Age of Innocence," winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize.

    "Wharton's graceful sentences create dramatic, populous tableaux and pee...

  • His Father's Son and Other Stories

    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Afterward

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  • Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Autres Temps

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Best Man

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  • Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton

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  • The Blond Beast And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Bolted Door

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    Good God -- as if he were likely to forget it He re-lived it all now in a drowning flash: the persistent rejection of the play, his sudden resolve to put it on at his own cost, to spend ten thousand dollars of his inheritance on testing his chance o...

  • The Bolted Door, And Expiation

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • The Choice, And Coming Home

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Coming Home

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  • Coming Home and Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Crucial Instances

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    Edith Wharton was born and bred to be a society wife, but in that she was a dismal failure: her marriage was pure misery, and in time the Whartons parted. As a writer, though, she was an incredible success -- she had real insight into the people a...

  • The Daunt Diana And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • The Descent of Man

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  • The Dilettante And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • The Duchess At Prayer And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • The Early Short Fiction

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Expiation

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  • Eyes

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  • Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

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  • Ghosts

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    An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself.No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton’s most ...

  • Gift from the Grave

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    This ebook edition has been proofed and corrected for errors and compiled to read with pleasure!****NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERThe title of this little book calls for a word of explanation from me.In the United States the story appears as The Touchstone. W...

  • The Greater Inclination

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    Edith Wharton was born and bred to be a society wife, but in that she was a dismal failure: her marriage was pure misery, and in time the Whartons parted. As a writer, though, she was an incredible success -- she had real insight into the people a...

  • The House of the Dead Hand

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  • Human Nature

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    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1933. 'Human Nature' is a collection of short stories. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Her family were extremely wealthy, and during her youth she was provided private tuit...

  • In Trust

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  • Introducers

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  • The Introducers And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Kerfol, and The Long Run

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Lady's Maid's Bell

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  • Last Asset

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  • The Last Asset And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • The Letters, And Other Times, Other Manners

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • The Long Run

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  • Margaret Of Cortona And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Marne

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  • The Marne a Tale of the War

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    Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Marne A Tale of the War. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.

    This is a new and freshly published edi...

  • Mission of Jane

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  • The Mission of Jane And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

  • Mrs. Manstey's View And Other Stories

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

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    Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and ...

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    When she was young, Anna Summers married a wealthy American named Fraser Leath, whose one real passion was his collection of snuffboxes. Really! Wouldn't you just know how well that'd work out? And then Mr. Snuffbox snuffs it, and Anna runs into a...

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    Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her warrelief work in France, A Son at the Front (1923) opensin Paris on July 30, 1914, as Europe totters on thebrink of war. Expatriate American painter JohnCampton, whose only son George, having been...

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    The Touchstone was Edith Wharton's first published novella, and it's spare, perhaps even underwritten. Even so, this Faustian tale of a man who stoops to publish love letters for money has mesmerizing, even dangerous qualities -- it has betrayals,...

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    The Valley of Decision is set in eighteenth-century Italy. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the antireligious thoughts of Rousseau and Voltaire against the orthodox leaders of the day. Soon enough Wharton's night-constant theme comes through: t...

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    The Hermit and the Wild Woman is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 �" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for t...

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    In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her con...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Edith Wharton has published 137 books.

Edith Wharton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, His Father's Son and Other Stories, was published in May 2016.

The first book by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, was published in January 1905.

No. Edith Wharton does not write books in series.
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