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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

    This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton's masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart.As a keen observer of human nature, Wharton weaves her ghostly ta...

  • Hudson River Bracketed

    Originally published in 1929, Hudson River Bracketed is a late novel by Wharton that deals with a young aspiring writer, Vance Weston and his developing relationship with Halo Spear, a woman who takes the time to introduce Weston to the delights of l...

  • 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

    Originally published in 1932, The Gods Arrive is the sequel to Hudson River Bracketed and continues the development of Lance Weston and his relationship with Halo Spear who, it transpires, has left her husband to live with Lance. Where the first nove...



  • 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

    A bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton's The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary...

  • The Buccaneers

    Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society -- now an original series on AppleTV+!“Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.” -- The New...

  • The Glimpses of the Moon

    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...

  • Short Stories

    Includes 7 superbly crafted tales of love and marriage, divorce and other topics: "Souls Belated," "The Pelican," "The Muse's Tragedy," "Expiation," "The Dilettante," "Xingu," and "The Other Two."...

  • 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

    Four novellas by the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capturing New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s.The four short novels in this collection are set in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, each ...

  • 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

    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...



  • 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

    Originally published in 1925, The Mother's Recompense details the predicament Kate Clephane finds herself in when recalled to New York from her self-imposed exile to the French Riviera after she had abandoned her husband and infant daughter. What mak...

  • 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

    Diagnosed with typhoid fever at age of nine, Edith Wharton was beginning a long convalescence when she was given a book of ghost tales to read. Not only setting back her recovery, this reading opened up her fevered imagination to "a world haunted...

  • The Writing of Fiction

    A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains timeless advice on writing and reading well from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- now with a new introduction by Brandon Taylor.In 1921, Edith Wharton won a ...

  • Twilight Sleep

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

  • 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 was one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of Tales of Men and Ghosts includes a table ...

  • 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

    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...

  • Sanctuary

    Edith Wharton was one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of Sanctuary includes a table of contents....

  • Bunner Sisters

    Edith Wharton was one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of Bunner Sisters includes a table of conten...

  • 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

    These 20 short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times). “Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” --...

  • Kerfol

    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...

  • 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

    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...



  • 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 one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of The Fruit of the Tree includes a table of...

  • 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

    Originally published in 1930, Certain People is a collection of six short stories. The book starts with Atrophy, a neat study of near desperation in tight social surroundings as Nora Frenway bravely seeks to visit her gravely ill lover Christopher on...

  • Here And Beyond

    Originally published in 1926, Here and Beyond is a collection of six short stories previously released in various magazines. Two of these tales, The Young Gentleman and Bewitched, display distinct gothic leaning in their emphasis on looming architect...

  • 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

    A fantastic collection of early short works by American novelist, short story writer and designer Edith Wharton....



  • 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

    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...

  • The Triumph of Night

    Edith Wharton was one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of The Triumph of Night includes a table of ...

  • A Backward Glance

    Originally published in 1934, A Backward Glance is a memoir written by Wharton in her last years. The book dwells on Wharton's early and middle life leading up to and including her experiences during the First World War. The final chapter covers her ...

  • The Confessional

    The Confessional is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 â€" 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 their y...

  • 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 was one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of Autres Temps includes a table of contents...

  • Best Man

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • 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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    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...

  • 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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    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...

  • 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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    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

  • 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 one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of The Greater Inclination includes a table ...

  • 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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    Edith Wharton was one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of The Long Run includes a table of contents...

  • 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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    This early novel by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1918 and tells a tale of the First World War. Edith Wharton was a hugely successful writer and the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'. ...

  • 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 ...

  • Old New York New Year's Day

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  • 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 ...

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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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    His sabbatical in Europe cut abruptly short by the opening hostilities of the First World War, Charlie Durand, a professor of romance languages, finds himself caught up with a wave of Belgian refugees fleeing to London. Rescued, as it were, by Audrey...

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    Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author This powerful classic of American literature paints a moving portrait of young man forced to enlist in World War I and the devastated father he must leave behind Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her war...

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    The Touchstone was written by Edith Wharton and first published in 1900, it was her very first novella written. This Faustian tale of a man who stoops to publish love letters for money has mesmerizing, even dangerous qualities, it has betrayals, gree...

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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 â€" August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for t...

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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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