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
Cleveland Live, June 7, 2013
...their cuisine." The Age of Desire Jennie Fields Penguin, 352 pp., $16 In this novel about author Edith Wharton (the title is a twist on Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"), Jennie Fields uses Wharton's letters and diary entries to imagine the...
Examiner.com, June 6, 2013
...Jennie Fields new book on Edith Wharton Credits: Jennie Fields Books newsletter E-mail * do not change Contact Email Contact Email2 Contact Url Subscribe to Blog Remember my Info BookSmart Tulsa welcomes author Jennie Fields to...
Huffington Post, June 6, 2013
...how the now-affluent Village used to be a more bohemian place where a down-and-out artist could live. Several Edith Wharton novels, including The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, are set in the ritzier environs of Manhattan. But the latter book...
Nashville Scene, June 6, 2013
...Penguin, 384 pages, $16 Novelist Edith Wharton knew the depths and complexities of the human soul. More than a hundred years later, the inexorable fall of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth still distresses and...
Marie Claire UK, June 5, 2013
...to improve child literacy and 67% say that she has turned non-readers into readers. J.K. Rowling 5. Edith Wharton Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. Her novel, The Age of Innocence, won the prestigious honour in...
Huffington Post, June 3, 2013
...pick up your pen and paper, typewriter, computer and start writing! Loading Slideshow F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Edith Wharton George Orwell Dorothy Parker Richard Wright G.K. Chesterton John Steinbeck Mark Twain Charles Dickens...
Good Housekeeping UK, June 3, 2013
...it even more the second time round. 14) Who are your favourite dead writers? There are so many! ... Edith Wharton, Henry James, Rosamond Lehmann, Jean Rhys, Daphne du Maurier, Beryl Bainbridge, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Willa...
Midland Daily News, May 31, 2013
...poetry and drama that students will read. For example, the Common Core ignores the novels of Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” It also delays the point at which Bay State students reach Algebra I — the gateway to...
World News Network, May 31, 2013
...Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, was raised in Boston. Ethan Frome, written in 1911 by Edith Wharton, is set in turn-of-the-century New England, in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. Like much literature of the region, it plays...
Asheville Citizen-Times, May 31, 2013
...Send it to JBuchanan@CITIZEN-TIMES.com Reader grades A for a rose cultivated by Conard-Pyle/Star Roses that won the Edith Wharton Award in the Biltmore International Rose Trials held on May 18 at the Biltmore Estate. An international jury selected the...
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, May 30, 2013
...2010, has been to reduce the amount of classical literature studied by more than half. Goodbye Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Let’s call this one a clever half-truth. Goodbye Mark Twain’s...
Slate Magazine, May 29, 2013
...s interview with Messud in New York. Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs. Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country...
Slate Magazine, May 29, 2013
...s interview with Messud in New York. Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs. Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country...
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, May 28, 2013
...poetry and drama that students will read. For example, the Common Core ignores the novels of Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn." It also delays the point at which Bay State students reach Algebra I—the gateway to higher...
