Edith Wharton: 443 books

Book cover of The Children
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014

Originally published in 1928, The Children is a late novel concerns Martin Boyne's distraction from his anticipated marriage to Rose Sellars, a recently widowed woman of his own age. The distraction comes in the form of seven children he meets aboard a ship sailing from South America to Italy, principally...
Book cover of Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. An...
Book cover of The House of Mirth (Collins Classics)
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.’ Lily Bart, an attractive young woman living...
Book cover of Ethan Frome (Collins Classics)
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things…’ One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan Frome toils at...
Book cover of Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014

Tale of a tragic love triangle. This novel is lyrical in its beauty. Wharton's word choice and descriptions are vivid and real, and the reader is moved to pity the characters in their circumstances. One would be hard pressed to find a more beautifully written tragedy.
Book cover of Italian Backgrounds (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

Wharton’s 1901-04 travels yielded nine ruminations about Italy, its culture, and the art of being a perceptive visitor. Includes “An Alpine Posting-Inn,” “A Midsummer Week's Dream,” “The Sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps,” “What the Hermits Saw,” “A Tuscan Shrine,” “Sub Umbra Liliorum,” “March in Italy,” and “Picturesque Milan.”
Book cover of The House of Mirth & The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. Lily Bart is adept at playing society's games, which expect her to achieve an advantageous marriage. Yet, torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on...
Book cover of The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

In the title story, the “hermit” is a boy who witnessed the murder of his parents and sister. The trauma has shaped his life, but a new neighbor—the “wild woman”—is about to change his outlook. Wharton’s 1908 collection also includes “The Last Asset,” “In Trust,” “The Pretext,” “The Verdict,” “The Pot-Boiler,” and “The Best Man.”
Book cover of Bunner Sisters
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014

Originally published in 1916, but actually written in 1890, Bunner Sisters is a novella about social exclusion and deprivation. The sisters of the title, Anna Eliza and Evelina scrape a living from selling simple haberdashery items such as buttons, trims and ribbons. Their lives are mundane and in all...
Book cover of The Greater Inclination
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019

Wharton's first (1899) published collection of short stories ranges from light humor, social commentary, deception, and travel, to the darkly Gothic. Includes “The Muse's Tragedy," “A Journey," “The Pelican," “Souls Belated," “A Coward," “A Cup of Cold Water," “The Portrait," and a short play, “The Twilight of the Gods."
Book cover of The Marne (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

Francophile Wharton, an American buried in Versailles, was one of the few foreign front-line correspondents in France during World War I. A passionate advocate for the French national cause, this 1918 novella of a young American soldier in the Foreign Legion takes the United States to task for its slow aid to its ally.
Book cover of The Descent of Man and Other Stories
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014

Originally published in 1903, The Descent of Man and Other Stories is an early collection of short fiction that isn't held together by any particular theme. Of all the stories perhaps the most interesting for technical reasons is The Lady's Maid's Bell, a ghost story that incorporates a distinctly unreliable...
Book cover of Crucial Instances
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

Originally published in 1901, Crucial Instances is a collection of six short stories connected, as the title suggests, by a hinging moment in the narrative through which the plot alters dramatically. In The Angel at the Grave, Paulina Anson finds herself the sole custodian of her grandfather's inheritance;...
Book cover of The Hermet And The Wild Woman
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018

In the title story, the “hermit" is a boy who witnessed the murder of his parents and sister. The trauma has shaped his life, but a new neighbor—the “wild woman"—is about to change his outlook. Wharton's 1908 collection also includes “The Last Asset," “In Trust," “The Pretext," “The Verdict," “The Pot-Boiler," and “The Best Man."
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