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This novella exhibits Wharton's subtle realism and is one of her works depicting Americans living in France. It tells of Fanny de Malrive, née Frisbee, a once free-spirited New Yorker now married to a French marquis. Like... See More
Edith Wharton (/?hw??rt?n/; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton combined an insider's view of American aristocracy with a powerful... See More
World LiteratureAmerican Gothic remains an enduringly popular genre, retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. This comprehensive anthology brings together the best and most significant stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth... See More
Short StoriesA selection of thirteen chilling ghost stories from the greatest Victorian writers. The ghost story was part of the Victorians' fascination with the supernatural and the desire to establish a link with the past. In an age... See More
The Touchstone is a novel, written by Edith Wharton in 1905; it was the first of her many stories describing life in old New York. Stephen Glennard, the novel's protagonist, is suddenly impoverished and unable to marry the... See More
Classics
In 1921, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence, making Wharton the first woman to win the prestigious honor. But Wharton, who wrote several novels, poems, and short stories, was far more... See More
HorrorA handpicked collection of blood chilling classic horror, thriller tales. The Dead Smile- Marion Crawford Count Magnus - M R James The Spectre Bride - William Harrison Ainsworth A HAUNTED ISLAND - Algernon Blackwood The... See More
ClassicsThe House Of Mirth has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written. It reveals the astounding range, subtlety, artistry, and depth of thought of a true literary colossus, Edith Wharton... See More
Literary Fiction
The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and mores of turn of the... See More
Classics
Unrequited love is tragic, like an empty party; unconsummated love is worse -- it's senseless like a sinkhole or a flat soufflé. Set in the last decades of the nineteenth century, The Age of Innocence narrates the love... See More
Come on board for a Gothic journey in a funicular railway in Victorian England, a freight train in the Carpathian mountains, a high tech sky train in Bangkok, an underground railway in Tokyo. Visit stations which lure with... See More
Genre Fiction
Society thinks little of Mrs. Lizzie Hazeldean's apparent affair with the unmarried Henry Prest. As it turns out, society's understanding of the affair is uninformed and insensitive. See More
Classics
Edith Wharton's first novel, The Valley of Decision, is one of her most important and distinguished novels. Set in northern Italy in the late eighteenth century, it concerns the decisions that must be made by Odo Valsecca, a... See More
Classics
The Reef is possibly one of Edith Wharton's lesser known novels, but was written during her most brilliantly creative period. In 1910 Edith Wharton's affair with journalist Morton Fullerton had ended, and it would appear... See More
ClassicsThe story of a young man who scorns the love of a tortured novelist, only to have her words come back to haunt him from the dead, The Touchstone shows off the skills Wharton became famous for in novels such as Ethan Frome... See More
Classics
Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in... See More
Classics
Considered 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... See More
Teen & Young AdultThe Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily... See More
Classics
In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.The... See More
Children's eBooks
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Historical FictionThe House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature. See More
Classics
The House of Mirth is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly... See More
Classics
In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolutionary stock" families that rule New York's social life. Under the rules of this society... See More
Classics
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught relationships... See More
Travel & Tourism
"Having begun my book with the statement that Morocco still lacks a guide-book, I should have wished to take a first step toward remedying that deficiency. But the conditions in which I travelled, though full of unexpected... See More