Edith Wharton's Books
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Twilight SleepOut 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...Read More -
The House of MirthA literary sensation when it was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most...Read More
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The Ghost Stories of Edith WhartonOne 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...Read More
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Old New YorkThe 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...Read More
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The Age of InnocenceWinner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. With vivid power,...Read More
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Ethan FromeFirst published in 1911, Ethan Frome is widely regarded as Edith Wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the...Read More
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Backward GlanceA Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated...Read More
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The Writing of FictionA 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...Read More
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Custom of the CountryFirst published in 1913 and regarded by many critics as her most substantial novel, The Custom of the Country is Edith Wharton's powerful saga about...Read More
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Authors on the Web
Utne Reader Online, April 19, 2013
...did check that one of my very, very favorite novels is indeed included (The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton). Usefully, this reference covers a wide range of both classics and popular fiction; you don’t want to read only one or the other, any more...
Guardian.co.uk, April 19, 2013
...its depiction of women and sex, but it draws on a tradition of New York writers going back to Edith Wharton and Dorothy Parker, argues Hadley Freeman It is easy to forget that before the Sex and the City tours, Sex and the City theme nights, Sex and...
New Yorker, April 18, 2013
...George Orwell’s birthplace , in India, is being turned into a memorial to Gandhi. The birthplaces of Edith Wharton and Eugene O’Neill , meanwhile, have been turned into Starbuckses. Granta ’ s once-per-decade Best of Young British Novelists...
Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2013
...is avoiding the rather more ignominious fate of some other authors' homes. As a Flavorwire investigation found out, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Jack London are all now Starbucks franchises...
KUNC 91.5 FM, April 17, 2013
...honor of Mahatma Gandhi, the Agence France-Presse reports. Meanwhile, Flavorwire's Emily Temple discovers that the birthplaces of Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill and Jack London are now ... Starbucks locations. Obviously...
Sabotage Times, April 15, 2013
...up the genre effectively giving a crime novel the same status as say something by Henry James or Edith Wharton. In France this style of novel is known as polar. Movies like “Touchez Pas au Grisbi”, “Riffifi”, “Le Samouraï” “La Balance”...
Chicago Tribune, April 13, 2013
...Richard Russo, Ann Patchett and Barbara Kingsolver. We loved "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich, "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton, "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, "The Hummingbird's Daughter" by Luis Alberto Urrea, "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa...
Post Star, January 19, 2013
...as “Iroquois Culture,” “The Archaeology and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” “The First Lady of American Letters: Edith Wharton” and “Why Do Jews Earn Like Episcopalians and Vote Like Puerto Ricans?” There are also popular day trips...
Dallas Observer, January 18, 2013
...to Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel) and a work inspired by Jane Austen and Edith Wharton's novels called Age of Innocence. The Joffrey will appear at the tonight and tomorrow. Don't forget your torches and pitchforks, just in case the...
The Lady, January 18, 2013
...in 2012, with a starring role in Zadie Smith’s NW, and also in this debut, which relocates Edith Wharton’s The Age Of Innocence to contemporary NW11. COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD: Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes, Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot Written and...
Jewish Ledger, January 17, 2013
...the 2012 Costa First Novel Award and much critical acclaim from the U.S. and Europe. Inspired by Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence,” “The Innocents” is set in a small, tight-knit Jewish suburb of London. In the London-based Jewish...
Jewish News Weekly, January 17, 2013
...Novelist Francesca Segal received the National Jewish Book Award in fiction for “The Innocents”. The novel, modeled on Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence,” examines the behaviors and beliefs of an Orthodox Jewish community in London. Rabbi...
Broadway World, January 17, 2013
...last year's completely sold-out run, the production returns to The Citadel for a 10-day engagement. Inspired by Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, the novel tells of Lily Bart's tragic descent from the glittering social circle of 1890s New York to...
Guardian.co.uk, January 17, 2013
...well – and notable precisely because he was so good at lamenting the passing of the previous era. Edith Wharton rose to prominence through laying into Victorian suppositions in The House of Mirth. And John Galsworthy's The Man Of Property arrived to...
