Edith Wharton: Five Novels: Complete and Unabridged

edith wharton

Edith Wharton wrote at the turn of the twentieth century, but her tales of individuals who compromise their best interests for the sake of acceptance by family and society are timeless. The titles collected in this literary omnibus - The House of Mirth Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer, and The Age of Innocence - represent the best of her novel-length fiction.

Wharton wrote with empathy for her characters, endowing them with a dignity that makes their moral dilemmas worthy of our attention. Each of these novels speaks to the reader with elegance and clarity that was her unique gift.

Edith Wharton: Five Novels is part of Barnes & Noble's Library of Essential Writers. Each title in the series presents the finest works - complete and unabridged - from one of the greatest writers in literature in magnificent, elegantly designed hard-back editions. Every volume also includes an original introduction that provides the reader with enlightening information on the writer's life and works.

Genres classicsfiction

null pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1920

This edition

Format: null pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1999 by Barnes \u0026 Noble Books, New York
ISBN: 9780760719978
ASIN: 0760719977
Language: English

About the author

edith wharton

Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.