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Edith Wharton
1862–1937
A sharp-eyed novelist of Gilded Age America, she wrote elegant, emotionally precise stories about wealth, freedom, and the rules people live by. Best known for The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, she remains one of the great chroniclers of ambition, desire, and social pressure.
53 Audiobooks
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
Summer
by Edith Wharton
Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
by Edith Wharton
Tales of Men and Ghosts
by Edith Wharton
Xingu
by Edith Wharton
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
by Edith Wharton
The Decoration of Houses
by Ogden Codman, Edith Wharton
The Reef
by Edith Wharton
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2
by Edith Wharton
The writing of fiction
by Edith Wharton
Bunner Sisters
by Edith Wharton
Au temps de l'innocence
by Edith Wharton
In Morocco
by Edith Wharton
Kerfol
by Edith Wharton
The Greater Inclination
by Edith Wharton
The Touchstone
by Edith Wharton
The Fruit of the Tree
by Edith Wharton
Twilight sleep
by Edith Wharton
Italian Villas and Their Gardens
by Edith Wharton
The Glimpses of the Moon
by Edith Wharton
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1
by Edith Wharton
Crucial Instances
by Edith Wharton
The Choice
by Edith Wharton
Autres Temps...
by Edith Wharton
New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)
by Edith Wharton
The Old Maid (The 'Fifties)
by Edith Wharton
False Dawn (The 'Forties)
by Edith Wharton
The mother's recompense
by Edith Wharton
The Triumph Of Night
by Edith Wharton
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
by Edith Wharton
Madame de Treymes
by Edith Wharton
Coming Home
by Edith Wharton
The Valley of Decision
by Edith Wharton
Sanctuary
by Edith Wharton
French Ways and Their Meaning
by Edith Wharton
The Spark (The 'Sixties)
by Edith Wharton
A Motor-Flight Through France
by Edith Wharton
The Marne: A Tale of the War
by Edith Wharton
The Long Run
by Edith Wharton
Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses
by Edith Wharton
In Morocco
by Edith Wharton
Sous la neige
by Edith Wharton
Les metteurs en scène
by Edith Wharton
Italian Backgrounds
by Edith Wharton
A Son at the Front
by Edith Wharton
Aliaj Tempoj
by Edith Wharton
Verses
by Edith Wharton
Säätynsä uhri
by Edith Wharton
Voyages au front, de Dunkerque à Belfort
by Edith Wharton
About the author
Born in New York City in 1862, Edith Wharton grew up in the world of old New York society that would later become the material for some of her finest fiction. Her work often explores the tension between personal happiness and social expectations, especially for women navigating rigid codes of class and behavior.
She published novels, short stories, travel writing, and criticism, and became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Age of Innocence. Readers also return again and again to books like The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Custom of the Country for their wit, insight, and emotional force.
Wharton spent much of her later life in France and continued writing with remarkable range and discipline until her death in 1937. Her books still feel fresh because they look past manners and status to the loneliness, compromise, and quiet courage underneath.