The House of Mirth depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as it movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.
In 1917, amid the turmoil of World War I, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco. A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is her account of this journey through the countrys cities and its deserts.
Wharton's antiwar masterpiece probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her war relief work in France, A Son at the Front (1923) opens in Paris on July 30, 1914, as Europ...
This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Bunner Sisters' is a story about a couple of sisters who run a small shop in New York. The Elde...
A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre production\n\nThis collection features four spine-tingling horror stories to entice your imagination, including “Bewitched” by Edith Wharton, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Po...
La Edad de la Inocencia (Spanish Edit...
Edith WhartonAl amable mundo de convenciones sociales estrictas en el que se mueve, aparentemente sin roces ni contrariedades, la alta sociedad de Nueva York de finales del siglo pasado, regresa de Europa la inquietante condesa Olenska. Independie...
Spanning four decades in the mid-nineteenth century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York lay out in vivid detail the complex and inscrutable codes, customs, and taboos of New York society in classic Wharton style. In False Da...
""The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"" Awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, the first to be presented to a woman, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is a powerful d...
The House of Mirth (Naxos Complete Cl...
Edith WhartonSingle woman of 29, Lily Bart is Edith Wharton's quintessential trapped heroine. Orphaned following the death of her parents, Lily understands that she must use her beauty, grace and charm to attain the social position she longs for, ...
Edith Wharton’s superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised bestseller when it was first published in 1927 Whether it is sex, drugs, or infatuation with the occult, Mrs. Manford and her extended family of socia...