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.

Updated February 4, 2026
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The house of mirth
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major...

January 28, 2026

The house of mirth
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major...
Ethan Frome
Paper Book
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things...' One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan...

February 27, 2026

Ethan Frome
Paper Book
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things...' One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan...
Novels
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
The four novels in this Library of America volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy. In all of them her strong and autobiographical impulse is disciplined by her writer's...

CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

March 27, 2026

The custom of the country
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book

April 24, 2026

The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
The buccaneers : a novel
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book

May 22, 2026

Edith Wharton
Lee, Hermione.
Paper Book
Delving into heretofore untapped sources, the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf brilliantly interweaves Edith Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her to be far more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age.
Edith Wharton : a woman in her time
Auchincloss, Louis.
Paper Book
Edith Wharton
Lee, Hermione.
Paper Book
Delving into heretofore untapped sources, the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf brilliantly interweaves Edith Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her to be far more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age.

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