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Edith Wharton
1862–1937
Raised inside New York’s elite world, she turned its rules, ambitions, and quiet cruelties into some of the sharpest fiction of her era. Her novels blend social detail with real emotional force, from glittering drawing rooms to the stark loneliness of rural New England.
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
Italian Villas and Their Gardens
by Edith Wharton
Xingu
by Edith Wharton
Madame de Treymes
by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
Bunner Sisters
by Edith Wharton
The Glimpses of the Moon
by Edith Wharton
Crucial Instances
by Edith Wharton
The Decoration of Houses
by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman
Sanctuary
by Edith Wharton
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1
by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
In Morocco
by Edith Wharton
Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses
by Edith Wharton
Twilight sleep
by Edith Wharton
The Old Maid (The 'Fifties)
by Edith Wharton
The Fruit of the Tree
by Edith Wharton
Aliaj Tempoj
by Edith Wharton
Summer
by Edith Wharton
The Long Run 1916
by Edith Wharton
Sous la neige
by Edith Wharton
The Touchstone
by Edith Wharton
In Morocco
by Edith Wharton
The mother's recompense
by Edith Wharton
New Year's Day (The 'Seventies)
by Edith Wharton
The Triumph Of Night 1916
by Edith Wharton
The Marne: A Tale of the War
by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2
by Edith Wharton
Au temps de l'innocence
by Edith Wharton
The Spark (The 'Sixties)
by Edith Wharton
Kerfol 1916
by Edith Wharton
Autres Temps... 1916
by Edith Wharton
French Ways and Their Meaning
by Edith Wharton
Les metteurs en scène
by Edith Wharton
The Reef
by Edith Wharton
The Greater Inclination
by Edith Wharton
Voyages au front, de Dunkerque à Belfort
by Edith Wharton
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
by Edith Wharton
False Dawn (The 'Forties)
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
A Son at the Front
by Edith Wharton
The Choice 1916
by Edith Wharton
Italian Backgrounds
by Edith Wharton
A Motor-Flight Through France
by Edith Wharton
Säätynsä uhri
by Edith Wharton
The Valley of Decision
by Edith Wharton
The writing of fiction
by Edith Wharton
Stories of New York
by Annie Eliot Trumbull, George A. (George Abiah) Hibbard, Bliss Perry, Edith Wharton, John Seymour Wood
Here and beyond
by Edith Wharton
The children
by Edith Wharton
Twelve poems
by Edith Wharton
About the author
Born in New York City in 1862, Edith Wharton grew up in the wealthy society she would later examine so brilliantly in her fiction. She became known for clear-eyed novels and stories about class, marriage, money, and the pressures of social convention, especially in works such as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence.
Wharton lived much of her adult life in Europe and wrote across many forms, including novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and memoir. She published more than 50 books, and The Age of Innocence earned the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, making her the first woman to win the award for fiction.
Her work remains admired for its wit, precision, and sympathy, as well as for the way it reveals what people hide behind good manners. Beyond her literary career, she was also known for her interest in architecture and design, and her autobiography, A Backward Glance, appeared in 1934.