Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature, and she won it for The Age of Innocence, an elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York.

Newland Archer is about to settle down and marry a beautiful young girl from a suitable family but then he meets her captivating cousin, the Countess Olenska.

Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland.

In a world where "being things" was better than "doing things"; a world where heredity and family connections were the most important things of all; in an Age of Innocence, they broke all the rules.

This selection of stories explores the many experiences and complexities of womanhood; sometimes joyful, sometimes sad....

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture....

The Custom of the Country is a trenchant novel that illustrates the dangers of excessive ambition.

In the words of John Barrington Bayley, president of Classical America, “The Decoration of Houses brings to mind. . . reflections in looking-glasses, and on parquet, and the garnitures of chimney-pieces, boiseriers. . .

With an unfailing eye for folly and pretentiousness, Wharton gives us four wonderful stories: 'The Eyes', 'The Daunt Diana', 'The Debt' and 'The Moving Finger'.

Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife...

When young Mattie Silver arrives at her cousin Zeena Frome's farm in the New England village of...

Ethan Frome is an entrancing but sad story of a poverty-stricken Massachusetts farmer caught in a loveless marriage. An emerging love for his young cousin leads to one day of explosive...

Ethan Frome is a keenly etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village.

Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle.

The pathetic but perceptive Lewis Raycie is sent on a grand tour of Europe with instructions to collect great art....

Set in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but no funds.

Immerse yourself in the short works of Twain, Hawthorne, Poe, and many others with this extensive...

This anthology of complete short fiction represents some of the most significant and enjoyable...

Lily Bart, a beautiful, intelligent, but penniless young woman, lives on the outskirts of New York's high society...

An immensely popular best-seller when published in 1905, The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton’s first great novel.

Lily Bart, bright and 29 years old, moves in the glittering social whirl of New York and tries to find a husband, but finds her world shattered when she is accused of being a mistress.

A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is Wharton’s account of a journey through the country’s cities and through its deserts.

This book follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive…

Anna Leath, an American widow living in France, has engaged in a love affair with George Darrow, a diplomat.

This is Edith Wharton’s most erotic and lyrical novel. Set in New England, Summer explores a woman’s awakening to her sexual needs.