Edith Wharton Books

A New York society novel of duty, desire, reputation, and emotional restraint.

A stark New England tragedy of desire, silence, poverty, and irreversible choice.

A sharp society novel of beauty, money, reputation, and social ruin.

A brilliant satire of ambition, marriage, money, status, and American social mobility.

Wharton’s intense rural novella follows Charity Royall through desire, class constraint, shame, and the limits of escape.

A public-domain classic on love, secrecy, social pressure, memory, and psychological realism.