Edith Wharton
Old New York
By: Edith Wharton
The four novellas collected here, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Age of Innocence,' brilliantly capture New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. Originally published in 1924, this outstanding quartet includes 'False Dawn,' about a...
Published: Mar 1995
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 320
Ethan Frome and Other Short Stories
By: Edith Wharton
In addition to Ethan Frome, this Bantam Classic edition contains the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, 'The Last Asset,' 'The Other Two,' and 'Xingu.
Published: Mar 1987
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 256
The Fruit of the Tree (Literary Classics)
By: Edith Wharton
'This little known novel by the author of "The Age of Innocence" is constructed around a complex plot involving the theme of social justice, the moral dilemma of euthanasia, the increasingly independent role of women, and the romantic...
Published: Jun 2004
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 633
Twilight Sleep
By: Edith Wharton
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 - these...
Published: Dec 1997
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 318
The Buccaneers (Great Books of the 20th Century)
By: Edith Wharton
A classic work left unfinished by Edith Wharton has been brought to a successful completion using Wharton's own synopsis, as it chronicles the fortunes of five rich New York girls who travel to England in search of titled husbands. Reprint....
Published: Oct 1994
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 416
The Reef (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Edith Wharton
emThe Reef/em (1912) is one of Edith Wharton's finest and most compelling novels, admired greatly by Henry James. A minutely rendered anatomy of social ambiguity, focused on the intricately interdependent lives of three American expatriates in...
Published: Jul 1996
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 293
The Age of Innocence - The Original Classic Edition
By: Edith Wharton
It was a glittering, sumptuous time when hypocrisy was expected, discreet infidelity tolerated, and unconventionality ostracized. That is the Gilded Age, and nobody knew its hypocrises better than Edith Wharton. . . . and nobody portrayed them as...
Published: Dec 2011
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 136
Ethan Frome & Summer
By: Edith Wharton
This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseperable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequences. This...
Published: May 2001
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 304
Sanctuary
By: Edith Wharton
With illustrations by Walter Appleton Clark. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1903 edition by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 164
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton
"If there is a more highly regarded female American author of the twentieth century, her name doesn't readily come to mind." --John Updike Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society—against whose rigid mores she often...
Published: Aug 2009
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 390
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
By: 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...
Published: Oct 1997
Genre: Fiction - Ghost
Pages: 304
A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
By: Edith Wharton
A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and...
Published: Jul 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Pages: 424
A Son at the Front
By: Edith Wharton
Wharton's antiwar masterpiece, now once again available, probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love, art and self-sacrifice, national loyalties...
Published: Sep 1995
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 223
Afterward
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 48
Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 60
Autres Temps
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 48
Bunner Sisters
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Jan 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 96
Coming Home and Other Stories
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 100
Crucial Instances
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 148
Ethan Frome (World Classics)
By: Edith Wharton
A classic of American Literature and a powerful story taking place against the cold, gray, bleakness of a New England winter. Ethan Frome is trying to run a farm while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife Zeena. A ray of hope...
Published: Mar 1997
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 98
Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belport (Hesperus Modern Voices)
By: Edith Wharton
As nuanced in her observations of human behavior as she is in her vivid depictions of French landscape and architecture, Wharton fully exploits her unique position as consort to Walter Barry, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris,...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 120
His Father's Son and Other Stories
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 100
In Morocco
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 152
Kerfol, and The Long Run
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Feb 2008
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 68
Madame De Treymes
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 64
Madame de Treymes and Three Novellas
By: Edith Wharton
Madame de Treymes', Edith Wharton's first publication after the highly successful 'The House of Mirth', is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspired by Wharton's own entre into Parisian society in 1906 and...
Published: Dec 1995
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 400
Margaret of Cortona and Other Stories
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 80
Mrs. Manstey's View and Other Stories
By: Edith Wharton
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...
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 80
Roman Fever and Other Stories
By: Edith Wharton
A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime. The best of her short fiction is collected...
Published: Jun 1997
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 304
Short Stories
By: Edith Wharton
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.'
Published: Oct 1994
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 124