'The Age of Innocence' is a love story, & a minute dissection of old New York society in the 1870s. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, is a product...
The text of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotations...
First published in 1905, 'The House of Mirth' portrays the moral, social and economic constraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage...
First published in 1905, 'The House of Mirth' portrays the moral, social and economic constraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage...
Edith Wharton's subtle variation on the theme of the eternal triangle features Anna Leath, a rich American widow living in France, her daughter's governess...
Halo Tarrant, abandoning her failed marriage, elopes to Europe with the brilliant young writer, Vance Weston. As they travel around, her only wish is...
Chloe lives a quiet life. Working as a newspaper archivist in the day and taking care of her nan in the evening, she's happy simply to read about the...