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.

A groundbreaking study of society, nature, and human needs, Edith Wharton's starkly simple Summer---a portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening---is admittedly one of the author's favorites.

In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves an ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies.

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.

Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people 'dreaded scandal more than disease.

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