Books by Edith Wharton

Portrait of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton, one of the foremost voices in early twentieth‑century American literature, brought incisive social observation and elegant prose to every page. Her novels, including celebrated works such as *The Age of Innocence* and *Ethan Frome*, reveal the constraints of class, convention, and desire with a precision that still feels modern. Drawing on her own experience of New York's Gilded Age, Wharton combined wit, irony, and psychological insight to illuminate the inner lives of her characters.

Beyond fiction, Wharton was a travel writer, designer, and humanitarian, whose cosmopolitan outlook enriched her storytelling. Her writing remains a touchstone for readers who relish finely drawn settings, moral complexity, and the quiet power of restraint. Each edition of her work invites a rediscovery of an author whose clarity and compassion continue to shape the literary landscape.

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC Twelve Poems

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC A Son at the Front

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC A Son at the Front

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC Primary Sources Historical Collections

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC Primary Sources Historical Collections

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC The Children

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  • Creative Media Partners, LLC The Children

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  • The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton

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  • Bunner Sisters

    1st World Library Bunner Sisters

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  • Ethan Frome

    Book Jungle Ethan Frome

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  • Italian Villas and Their Gardens

    Read Books Italian Villas and Their Gardens

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  • Fighting France by Edith Wharton History Travel Military Europe France World War I

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  • Wildside Press Here and Beyond

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Age of Innocence

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  • Old New York

    Wilder Publications Old New York

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  • Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Ethan Frome: Classic Literature

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  • Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome

    Tark Classic Fiction Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome

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  • In Morocco by Edith Wharton, History, Travel, Africa, Essays & Travelogues

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  • The Valley of Decision

    Bibliotech Press The Valley of Decision

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  • The Decoration of Houses

    Bibliotech Press The Decoration of Houses

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  • The Decoration of Houses

    Bibliotech Press The Decoration of Houses

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  • The Age of Innocence (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

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  • The Edith Wharton Collection (complete and Unabridged) Including: The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, Summer, The Custom of the Country and The Reef

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  • The Children

    Little, Brown Book Group The Children

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    Book SynopsisOn a cruise ship between Algiers and Venice Martin Boyne, a bachelor in his forties, befriends a band of ebullient, precocious children. The seven Wheater stepbrothers and sisters, grown weary of being shuttled between mother and father 'like bundles', are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. They are kept together as a 'family' by the eldest, Judith, who takes on the role of protector. Genuinely outraged at the plight of the 'homeless' and fought-over children, Boyne finds himself increasingly drawn to their enchanting, improper and liberating ways. Among the colourful cast of characters are the Wheater adults, who play out their own comedy of marital errors; the flamboyant Marchioness of Wrench; and the vivacious fifteen-year-old Judith Wheater, who captures Martin's heart. With deft humour and touching drama, Wharton portrays a world of intrigues and infidelities, skewering the manners and mores of Americans abroad.Trade ReviewAn engrossing picture of middle-aged infatuation * The TIMES *A writer for our time * Marilyn French *

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  • The Custom Of The Country

    Little, Brown Book Group The Custom Of The Country

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    Book SynopsisIf only I were sure of knowing what to expect!' he caught up at her joke, tossing it back at her across the fascinating silence of their listeners.'Why everything!' she announcedWith the intention of making a suitable match, Undine Spragg and her parents move to New York where her youthful, radiant beauty and ruthless ambition prove an irrestible force. Here Edith Wharton dissects the traditions, pretensions and prohibitions of American and European society - both the ostentacious glitter of the 'nouveau riche' and the faded grandeur of the upper classes - with an eye on all the more exacting for its dispassionate gaze. And in Undine Spragg she has created an unforgettable heroine - a woman taught to dazzle and enslave, but to know nothing of the financial and social cost of the status she so passionately craves.Trade ReviewEdith Wharton is unique in its intimacy and sureness, not to mention the virile and satiric tone, and which she investigates this narrow and declining society * Times Literary Supplement *

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  • The Fruit Of The Tree

    Little, Brown Book Group The Fruit Of The Tree

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    Book SynopsisJohn Amherst, clever, idealistic and poor, is assistant manager of a cotton mill and has the makings of a working-class leader. While visiting a worker in hospital he encounters a young nurse, Justine, compassionate and principled, a woman who shares his dreams and aims. But Amherst is fatally distracted when he meets Bessy. A widow of great wealth, Bessy is charming, beautiful - and the new owner of the mill. The lives of all three become strangely interwoven as Amherst is forced to choose between sense and sentiment, between his care for the working classes and his infatuation with Bessy - a woman made for passion, but not for its aftermath.

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  • The Gods Arrive

    Little, Brown Book Group The Gods Arrive

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    Book SynopsisHalo Tarrant, abandoning her failed marriage, elopes to Europe with the brilliant young writer, Vance Weston. As they travel around, her only wish is to serve him and his genius. But, ignoring the pain her amiguous status brings, Vance takes her loving attentions for granted and rejects the critical advice he had formerly welcomed. This distinguished novel, companion piece to HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED, first published in 1932, shows a writer's struggle for integrity and maturity, and the difficulties which, even in the most idealistic relationship, beset men and women in a changing but hypocritical moral climate.

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  • Hudson River Bracketed

    Little, Brown Book Group Hudson River Bracketed

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    Book SynopsisNaïve young writer Vance Weston, convalescing by the Hudson River, meets Halo Spear and is fired by her passion for literature. They meet again, much later, and, with her rich, cultivated husband, Lewis Tarrant, she introduces him to New York's literary and artistic circles. But an impulsive marriage has brought Vance poverty and unwelcome responsibilities which inhibit his writing until one summer, Halo inspires him to write the novel which makes his name. The conflict between New York sophistication and Midwestern naivety leads to painful dilemmas, involving both couples in perplexity and loss.

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  • The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton

    Little, Brown Book Group The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton

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    Book SynopsisIn these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy newEngland a fearsome double foreshadowsthe fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient cruelties, Dorset witnesses a retrospective haunting and a New York club cushions an elderly aesthete as he tells of the ghastly eyes haunting his nights.

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  • Madame De Treymes

    Little, Brown Book Group Madame De Treymes

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    Book SynopsisFranny Frisbee is an unhappily married woman. Having left New York to live in Paris with the family of her husband, the Marquis of Malrive, she embarks on an adventure in Paris with her childhood friend John Durham, who wishes her to divorce her husband and marry him. Through Franny's crisis between her rights as a woman and what is best for her family, Edith Wharton explores the clashing cultures of Parisian and American life and the role of women at the turn of the century in this moving novel of love and scandal for an American woman abroad.

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  • Old New York

    Little, Brown Book Group Old New York

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    Book SynopsisEdith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its society.These novellas, set in the New York of the mid-1800s are united by Edith Wharton's compassionate and ironic vision. From Lewis Raycie, son of complacent plutocrats, who returns from his Grand Tour with Renaissance masterpieces only to be ridiculed and disinherited, to Lizzie Hazeldean, seen leaving a hotel with a man who is not her husband - honourable but unconventional people are sacrificed to the constraints of a society where appearances count for more than genuine goodness. Here is a fascinating insight into the world from which Edith Wharton came.

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  • The Mother's Recompense

    Little, Brown Book Group The Mother's Recompense

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    Book SynopsisEdith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its society.Twenty years earlier, Kate Clephane had exiled herself from husband, child and the rigidity of New York society because of her guilty elopement. Now, living quietly on the Rivera, she is overjoyed to be summoned home by her daughter, Anne. But back in the charmed circle, she finds post-war New York, though changed in many ways, still locked into petty and snobbish constrictions. This touching study of complex issues shows how Kate's joy in being with Anne is soon threatened by the reappearance of the only man Kate had truly loved.

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  • Hudson River Bracketed

    Benediction Classics Hudson River Bracketed

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  • The House of Mirth: With Edith Wharton's 'Introduction to the 1936 Edition' (Aziloth Books)

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  • Alpha Edition Au temps de linnocence

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  • The Age of Innocence Penguin Vitae

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Age of Innocence Penguin Vitae

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    Book SynopsisEdith Wharton’s acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman.A Penguin Vitae EditionDutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May’s cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of perceived scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her worldliness, disregard for society’s rules, and air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland, despite his enthusiasm about a marriage to May and the societal advantages it would bring. Almost against their will, Newland and Ellen develop a passionate bond, and a classic love triangle takes shape as the three young people find themselves drawn into a poi

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  • The Custom of the Country

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Custom of the Country

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    Book SynopsisWharton?s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Vitae EditionConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton?s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior décor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and satisfying plot that follows Undine?s marriages and affairs, she conveys a vision of social behavior that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.

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  • The House of Mirth

    Macmillan Learning The House of Mirth

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    Book Synopsis

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  • A Backward Glance An Autobiography

    Simon & Schuster A Backward Glance An Autobiography

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    £18.99

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Summer

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  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Das Haus der Freude

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  • Penguin TB Verlag Zeit der Unschuld

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  • Antigonos Verlag The Greater Inclination

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  • btb Taschenbuch Traumtnzer Roman

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  • btb Taschenbuch Dmmerschlaf Roman

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  • Edition Erdmann In Marokko Vom Hohen Atlas nach Fs durch Wsten

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  • Marix Verlag Ethan Frome Und ein Himmel aus Eis

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  • The Age of Innocence The Norton Library

    WW Norton & Co The Age of Innocence The Norton Library

    Book SynopsisPart of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of The Age of Innocence features the complete text of the first (1921) edition. An introduction by Sheila Liming provides historical and sociocultural context to the novel's Gilded Age setting, illuminating the deft ironies, gender politics, and enduring influence of Edith Wharton's masterwork. The Norton Library is a growing collection of high-quality texts and translationsinfluential works of literature and philosophyintroduced and edited by leading scholars. Norton Library editions prepare readers for their first encounter with the works that they'll re-read over a lifetime. Inviting introductions highlight the work's significance and influence, providing the historical and literary context students need to dive in with confidence. Endnotes and an easy-to-read design deliver an uninterrupted reading experience, encouraging students to read the text first and refer to endnotes for more information as needed. An affordable price (most $10 or less) encourages students to buy the book and to come to class with the assigned edition. About the Editor: Sheila Liming is Associate Professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. She is the author of What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and creator of the web database EdithWhartonsLibrary.org.

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