Author Focus
Edith Wharton
(1862-1937)

In her long career, which stretched over forty years and
included the publication of more than forty books, Edith Wharton
portrayed a fascinating segment of the American experience. She was a born storyteller, whose novels are justly celebrated for their vivid
settings, satiric wit, ironic style, and moral seriousness.
Major
Works:
- The Decoration of Houses (1897)
- The Greater Inclination (1899)
- The Touchstone (1900)
- Crucial Instances (1901)
- The Valley of Decision (1902)
- Sanctuary (1903)
- Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904)
- The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904)
- Italian Backgrounds (1905)
- The House of Mirth (1905)
- The Fruit of the Tree (1907)
- Madame de Treymes (1907)
- The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories (1908)
- A Motor-Flight Through France (1908)
- Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses (1909)
- Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910)
- Ethan Frome (1911)
- The Reef (1912)
- The Custom of the Country (1913)
- Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1915)
- Xingu and Other Stories (1916)
- The Book of the Homeless (1916)
- Summer (1917)
- The Marne (1918)
- French Ways and Their Meaning (1919)
- The Age of Innocence (1920)
- In Morocco (1920)
- the Glimpses of the Moon (1922)
- A Son at the Front (1923)
- Old New York (1924)
- The Writing of Fiction (1925)
- The Mother's Recompense (1925)
- Twelve Poems (1926)
- Here and Beyond (1926)
- Twilight Sleep (1927)
- The Children (1928)
- Hudson River Bracketed (1929)
- Certain People (1930)
- The Gods Arrive (1932)
- Human Nature (1933)
- A Backward Glance (1934)
- The World Over (1936)
- Ghosts (1937)
- The Buccaneers (1938)
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