BOOKS by Edith Wharton

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1	Ethan Frome more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist This tragic short novel tells the tale of Ethan Frome, who lives an isolated life in cold New England. When his mother dies, he marries his cousin Zeena for companionship, rather than for love. When they hire Mattie Silver as a live-in household helper, Ethan and the young Mattie fall desperately in love. Inevitably, Zeena discovers the affair. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	House of Mirth more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Published in 1905, Edith Wharton's first novel, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, navigates the murky waters of class-bound courtship and marriage in turn-of-the-century upper-crust Manhattan. Ironic, sharp, and tragic, the novel follows beautiful, orphaned Lily Bart in her search for a rich husband--the only route open to her if she is to survive in a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Age of Innocence more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is Edith Wharton's insider's look at New York society at a time when an address above 12th Street was considered the wild frontier. May Welland, demure and pretty, is born and bred to marry Newland Archer, a thoughtful barrister. He in turn loves the brazen, unconventional, and attractive Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Custom of the Country more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY marks Edith Wharton's return to the satiric tone of THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. She follows bored, passive Ralph Marvell, a gentle young man with the heart of a poet, as he squanders his family's modest inheritance in an attempt to find happiness. But the real star of Wharton's narrative is the beautiful, ambitious, and blatantly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	French Ways and Their Meaning more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Essays about the French and their culture, written during World War I. see all copies from $2.85! new only from $12.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Italian Villas and Their Gardens: The Original 1904 Edition more books like this by Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish (Illustrator), John Dixon Hunt (Introduction by) add to wishlist Edith Wharton's Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America's greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls ... see all copies from $21.90! new only from $21.90! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Summer more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Wharton called this companion novel to Ethan Frome, "hot Ethan." The heroine, Charity Royall (unlike Ethan Frome), is determined to experience passion and engages in a tempestuous love affair with Lucius Harney, a young man who has drifted into the Berkshires during his college vacation. Eventually, Charity becomes pregnant. The novel reflects the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Roman Fever & Other Stories more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist A collection of beautifully-crafted short stories. They are set in Italy, France and America and are powerful portraits of women who live in 'the world of propriety' at the turn of the century. They tell of the emotions women feel: in love, in jealousy, when they long for children or seek independence - and when their passions lead them to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.60! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Ethan Frome and Other Short Stories more books like this by Edith Wharton, Mary Gordon (Introduction by) add to wishlist In addition to Ethan Frome, this Bantam Classic edition contains the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, "The Last Asset", "The Other Two", and "Xingu". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| SVS
10	Decoration of Houses more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Edith Wharton excelled not only at creating fiction but at decorating her homes and at analyzing the decor of the homes of her friends and acquaintances. This classic contains Wharton's thoughts on her own "Pavillon Colombe" on the Ile de France, her estate in the Berkshires, the neoclassical houses of New York City's Upper East Side with which ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.49! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist A collection of 11 ghost stories, written by the celebrated American novelist (author of "Ethan Frome" and "The Age of Innocence"). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.71! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Reef more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Anna Leath, the American widow of a Frenchman, discovers that the man she is now engaged to has been the lover of her stepson's fiance, who is also her daughter's governess. This book explores the consequences of acting on one's sexual impulses. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Ethan Frome & Summer more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Set in rural New England, "Ethan Frome" is the story of its title character who marries Zenobia, a nagging hypochondriac of a woman, and finds himself trapped in an unfulfilling life. When Zenobia's young cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them, Frome falls in love with her. "Ethan Frome" is the story of forbidden love and its tragic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
14 view cover	Glimpses of the moon more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Wharton's comic novel follows the exploits of a young newlywed couple, Nick and Susy Lansing, who agree to become fortune hunters and marry for money. While sponging off the generosity of their friends and relatives, they agree to continue to seek other more suitable partners despite their marriage, but ironically, end up in love with each other. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Italian Villas and Their Gardens more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Struck by the magnificence of the Italian countryside from the time of her first sojourn there, our ranking novelist and lady of letters of the early 1900sa renowned connoisseurjoined forces with the foremost illustrator of the time to celebrate a subject that was dear to them both: the incomparable villas and gardens of Italy. Edith Wharton ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.83! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Age of Innocence more books like this by Wharton Edith Wharton add to wishlist On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.92! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Short Stories more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Includes 7 superbly crafted tales of love and marriage, divorce and other topics: "Souls Belated," "The Pelican," "The Muse's Tragedy," "Expiation," "The Dilettante," "Xingu," and "The Other Two." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The New York Stories of Edith Wharton more books like this by Edith Wharton, Roxana Robinson (Compiled by) add to wishlist A New York Review Books Original Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops' nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed ... see all copies from $7.52! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
19 view cover	In Morocco more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist In Morocco is Edith Wharton's classic account of her journey to Morocco in the final days of World War I. From Rabat and Fez to Moulay Idriss and Marrakech, Wharton explored the country and its people as research for this book, which she hoped (correctly) would prove invaluable to travellers following in her footsteps. Her descriptions of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.09! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	A Backward Glance: An Autobiography more books like this by Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss (Illustrator) add to wishlist Wharton's fans, as well as readers eager to learn more about the literary, social, and historical forces that shaped this honored American author, are certain to be informed and entertained by this excellent self-portrait. 9 photos. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
21 view cover	The buccaneers more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Edith Wharton's last novel, unfinished when she died in 1937, was published in its incomplete state in 1938. The title refers to the bold actions of a group of four young American debutantes who seek to use their vast wealth to acquire aristocratic European husbands. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Touchstone more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Stephen Glennard, an impoverished lawyer in the glamorous and money-driven society of New York, has one valuable possession: the letters written to him by the eminent and now deceased author Margaret Aubyn. He has seldom read the letters - he took their writer for granted herself - but they assume an importance for Glennard when it becomes clear ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Hudson River Bracketed more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Naive young writer, Vance Weston, convalescing by the Hudson River, meets Halo Spear and is fired by her passion for literature. They meet again, much later, and with her rich cultivated husband, Lewis Tarrant, she introduces him to New York's literary and artistic circles. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.14! \| first editions
24 view cover	Backward Glance more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist Wharton's fans, as well as readers eager to learn more about the literary, social, and historical forces that shaped this honored American author, are certain to be informed and entertained by this excellent self-portrait. 9 photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) more books like this by Edith Wharton, Kent Ljungquist (Introduction by) add to wishlist Ethan Frome lives on a poor Massachusetts farm with his wearisome wife, Zeena. When Zeena's cousin Mattie comes to visit, Frome falls deeply in love with her--a fated event that sparks a heartbreaking chain reaction. In addition to "Ethan Frome, this new collection includes four of Wharton's superb short stories: "The Pretext," "The Aferward," ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.28! \| first editions \| SVS

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