Edith wharton

If a book is good, does it matter how we feel about the author? Likeable writers regularly create abhorrent characters, but can the same be said of the …

Janet Flanner’s classic Profile of the author, from 1929: “For like many novelists, Mrs. Wharton herself is her works.”

“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” —Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Ebook (ISBN: 9781509845651) Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library series

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton made the world of Old New York her own, the wealthy high society so powerfully depicted in these three elegantly ironic novels. Revolving around the marriage question, they explore the dilemma of women and men held within the rigid bounds of social convention. Thus in The House of Mirth, the novel that first brought Edith Wharton to fame, the complex, poignant heroine Lily Bart must either break away and find a more meaningful existence, or become a part of the superficial…

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Edith Wharton, writer.

An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself. No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton's most dedicated admirers are unaware that she was a master of the form. In fact, one of Wharton's final literary acts was assembling Ghosts, a personal selection of her most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937. In "The Lady's Maid's Bell,"…