Edith Wharton Book Club

Join us every month (Jan - June 2026) as we read novels by the great American author of the gilded age, Edith Wharton. Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer known for her sharp social commentary and depictions of upper-class life at the turn of the 20th century.

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Edith Wharton Book Club

Join us every month (Jan - June 2026) as we read novels by the great American author of the gilded age, Edith Wharton. Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer known for her sharp social commentary and depictions of upper-class life at the turn of the 20th century.

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The house of mirth
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the...

January 28, 2026

The house of mirth
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the...
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a...

February 27, 2026

Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a...
Novels
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book

CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

March 27, 2026

Novellas and other writings
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Collected in this Library of America volume are no fewer than six of the works of Edith Wharton- novels, novellas, and her renowned autobiography,A Backward Glance. Together they represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of the most accomplished and admired of American...
The custom of the country
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America's nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a...

April 24, 2026

The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a...
The age of innocence
Day-Lewis, Daniel.
DVD
In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is reacquainted...
The buccaneers : a novel
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society-now an original series on AppleTV+! "Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life."-The New York Times Book Review ...

May 22, 2026

Selected poems of Edith Wharton
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her novel The Age of Innocence, was also a brilliant poet. This revealing collection of 134 poems brings together a fascinating array of her verse--including fifty poems that have never before been published.<...
Collected stories, 1891-1910
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Library of America presents the first volume in a landmark two-volume collector's edition of the incomparable stories of an American master Born into an upper-class New York family, Edith Wharton broke with convention and became a professional writer, earning an enduring place as...

June 19, 2026

Edith Wharton
Lee, Hermione.
Paper Book
Born in 1862, during the Civil War, Edith Wharton broke away from her wealthy background. She travelled extensively in Europe, eventually settling in Paris. This biography delves into various aspects of Wharton's extraordinary life-story, shifting the emphasis towards Europe & placing her in her...
Edith Wharton
Lee, Hermione.
Paper Book
Born in 1862, during the Civil War, Edith Wharton broke away from her wealthy background. She travelled extensively in Europe, eventually settling in Paris. This biography delves into various aspects of Wharton's extraordinary life-story, shifting the emphasis towards Europe & placing her in her...
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