Edith Wharton

When Newland Archer, happily engaged to May Welland, meets his fiancée's cousin Ellen, his entire future is cast into doubt....

Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming a women who will succeed....

Beautiful, sophisticated and endlessly ambitious Lily Bart endeavours to climb the social ladder of New York's elite by securing a good match and living beyond her means....

Entrez dans le monde glamour et complexe de l'âge d'or new-yorkais avec The House of Mirth, un chef-d'œuvre intemporel écrit par la brillante Edith Wharton....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more.

Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society.

Countess Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society....

'All Souls' is a creepy Hallowe'en story about a woman who lives with her servants in a remote house in Connecticut....

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture....

Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife...

A BBC radio collection of full-cast dramatisations, bringing together Edith Wharton’s most popular and best-loved works....

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War....

Contained in this collection are four more enduring classics, read in full by some of the very best audiobook narrators....

In Hudson River Bracketed, Edith Wharton illuminates the creative process of writing. Vance Weston, a young Midwesterner yearning to be a writer, travels to New York in pursuit of his dreams. On the Hudson River, in an old house called The Willows, he meets a kindred spirit.

A creepy collection of the very best Gothic tales from the masters of suspense, horror, supernatural and occult fiction....

Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York’s high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland....

A New York 'it' girl, Lily Bart is a beauty of slender means and costly tastes, sought after at all the high society parties in town....

The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel....

The House of Mirth is centered on Lily Bart, a New York socialite who attempts to secure a husband and a place in affluent society. It was one of the first novels of manners to emerge in American literature....

Orphaned following the death of her parents, Lily understands that she must use her beauty, grace, and charm to attain the social position she longs for, but she is caught between her desire for wealth and a strong moral conscience, which sabotages every opportunity she encounters....