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
Ebook
Lily Bart, twenty-nine and unmarried, longs for a higher standing in society, which she believes she'll achieve by marrying a rich man. Unfortunately, her true love isn't wealthy enough, so Lily has to search elsewhere for a husband.

January 28, 2026

The house of mirth
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
Lily Bart, twenty-nine and unmarried, longs for a higher standing in society, which she believes she'll achieve by marrying a rich man. Unfortunately, her true love isn't wealthy enough, so Lily has to search elsewhere for a husband.
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He...

February 27, 2026

Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He...
The custom of the country
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
Edith Wharton's classic story of one woman's quest for wealth and status after the turn of the twentieth century Beautiful, selfish, and driven, Undine Spragg arrives in New York with all of the ambition and naiveté that her midwestern, nouveau riche upbringing afforded her. As...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?" --Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence In a society where people "dreaded scandal more than disease," passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is set...

April 24, 2026

The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?" --Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence In a society where people "dreaded scandal more than disease," passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is set...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?" --Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence In a society where people "dreaded scandal more than disease," passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is set...
Edith Wharton
Auchincloss, Louis.
Paper Book
Edith Wharton - American Writers 12 was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

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