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
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

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
"For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Edith Wharton's compulsively readable 20th century classic about the conquests of Undine Spragg, the glamorous and insatiable social climber--now with a new introduction by Brandon...
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
A lawyer loves his fiancee's free-thinking cousin in 1870s New York. Directed by Martin Scorsese. From the Edith Wharton novel."
The buccaneers : a novel
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book

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.<...
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
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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