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Edith Wharton
1862–1937
Born into old New York society, this sharp-eyed novelist turned its manners, money, and quiet cruelties into some of American fiction’s most memorable stories. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her work still feels startlingly modern in its honesty.
56 Audiobooks
Coming Home 1916
by Edith Wharton
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
by Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
Xingu
by Edith Wharton
The Glimpses of the Moon
by Edith Wharton
Madame de Treymes
by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
Italian Villas and Their Gardens
by Edith Wharton
Bunner Sisters
by Edith Wharton
The Decoration of Houses
by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1
by Edith Wharton
Crucial Instances
by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Sanctuary
by Edith Wharton
The Old Maid (The 'Fifties)
by Edith Wharton
In Morocco
by Edith Wharton
Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses
by Edith Wharton
Summer
by Edith Wharton
Twilight sleep
by Edith Wharton
The Long Run 1916
by Edith Wharton
The Triumph Of Night 1916
by Edith Wharton
The mother's recompense
by Edith Wharton
Aliaj Tempoj
by Edith Wharton
The Spark (The 'Sixties)
by Edith Wharton
The Touchstone
by Edith Wharton
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2
by Edith Wharton
The Fruit of the Tree
by Edith Wharton
Sous la neige
by Edith Wharton
The Marne: A Tale of the War
by Edith Wharton
In Morocco
by Edith Wharton
New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)
by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Kerfol 1916
by Edith Wharton
The Greater Inclination
by Edith Wharton
Autres Temps... 1916
by Edith Wharton
Au temps de l'innocence
by Edith Wharton
The Reef
by Edith Wharton
French Ways and Their Meaning
by Edith Wharton
False Dawn (The 'Forties)
by Edith Wharton
Les metteurs en scène
by Edith Wharton
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
by Edith Wharton
Voyages au front, de Dunkerque à Belfort
by Edith Wharton
A Son at the Front
by Edith Wharton
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories
by Edith Wharton
Tales of Men and Ghosts
by Edith Wharton
Verses
by Edith Wharton
The Choice 1916
by Edith Wharton
The writing of fiction
by Edith Wharton
Italian Backgrounds
by Edith Wharton
A Motor-Flight Through France
by Edith Wharton
The Valley of Decision
by Edith Wharton
Säätynsä uhri
by Edith Wharton
Stories of New York
by Annie Eliot Trumbull, George A. (George Abiah) Hibbard, Bliss Perry, Edith Wharton, John Seymour Wood
The children
by Edith Wharton
Here and beyond
by Edith Wharton
Twelve poems
by Edith Wharton
About the author
Edith Wharton was born in New York City on January 24, 1862, and grew up in the wealthy world she would later examine so brilliantly in her fiction. Drawing on that experience, she wrote novels and stories that explored class, marriage, duty, and the hidden pressures of respectable society with unusual precision and wit.
She is best known for works including The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence. In 1921, The Age of Innocence made her the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a landmark that helped secure her place in American literary history.
Wharton spent much of her later life in France and died there on August 11, 1937. Alongside her fiction, she also wrote about design and gardens, showing the same careful eye for atmosphere and detail that gives her novels their lasting power.