March 31, 2017 | History

Edith Wharton

24 January 1862 - 11 August 1937

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer and designer.

The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. She spoke fluent French as well as several other languages and many of her books were published in both French and English. (Source)

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The age of innocence
110 editions - first published in 1920 Read
Ethan Frome
103 editions - first published in 1910 Read
The house of mirth
82 editions - first published in 1905 Read
Summer
55 editions - first published in 1917 Read
The custom of the country
36 editions - first published in 1900 Read
The Greater Inclination
32 editions - first published in 1897 Read
The Reef
32 editions - first published in 1912 Read
Tales of Men and Ghosts
28 editions - first published in 1910 Read
The Valley of Decision: a novel
28 editions - first published in 1902 Read
The Glimpses of the Moon
27 editions - first published in 1922 Read
Crucial Instances
27 editions - first published in 1901 Read
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
23 editions - first published in 1904 Read
The Touchstone
23 editions - first published in 1900 Read
The fruit of the tree
22 editions - first published in 1907 Read
Madame de Treymes
19 editions - first published in 1907 Read
Short stories
19 editions - first published in 1968 Borrow
A backward glance
18 editions - first published in 1934
The children
17 editions - first published in 1928 Borrow
The decoration of houses
17 editions - first published in 1897 Read
Old New York
17 editions - first published in 1924 Borrow
Sanctuary
17 editions - first published in 1903 Read
A motor-flight through France
17 editions - first published in 1908 Read
Italian villas and their gardens
16 editions - first published in 1904 Read
Edith Wharton
15 editions - first published in 1994 Borrow
Fighting France: from Dunkerque to Belfort
13 editions - first published in 1915 Read
Hudson River bracketed
13 editions - first published in 1929 Borrow
In Morocco
13 editions - first published in 1920 Read
The mother's recompense
13 editions - first published in 1925 Borrow
Bunner Sisters
11 editions - first published in 2000
The ghost stories of Edith Wharton
10 editions - first published in 1973 Borrow
The Hermit and the Wild Woman: and other stories
10 editions - first published in 1908 Read
The writing of fiction
10 editions - first published in 1925
French ways and their meaning
10 editions - first published in 1919 Read
Roman fever, and other stories
9 editions - first published in 1964 Borrow
Italian backgrounds
9 editions - first published in 1905 Read
Twilight sleep
8 editions - first published in 1927 DAISY
The Gods Arrive
7 editions - first published in 1932
The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories
7 editions - first published in 1908 Read
Artemis to Actaeon, and other verse
7 editions - first published in 1909 Read
A son at the front
7 editions - first published in 1923 Borrow
The Age of Innocence
7 editions - first published in 2006 DAISY
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton
6 editions - first published in 2003
The Marne: a tale of the war
6 editions - first published in 1918 Read
The old maid: (The 'Fifties)
6 editions - first published in 1924 Borrow
Here and beyond
6 editions - first published in 1926 Borrow
Age of Innocence, The
6 editions - first published in 1995
A gift from the grave
5 editions - first published in 1900 Read
The book of the homeless: (Le livre des sans-foyer)
5 editions - first published in 1916 Read
The Edith Wharton reader
5 editions - first published in 1965 DAISY
The letters of Edith Wharton
4 editions - first published in 1988 Borrow
Xingu: and other stories
4 editions - first published in 1922
Best short stories of Edith Wharton
4 editions - first published in 1958
Ethan Frome
4 editions - first published in 2006 DAISY
The cruise of the Vanadis
4 editions - first published in 1992 Borrow
Afterward: A Story by Edith Wharton
3 editions - first published in 1996
The world over
3 editions - first published in 1936
The uncollected critical writings
3 editions - first published in 1996
Summer, a novel
3 editions - first published in 1917 Read
Madame de Treymes, and others: four novelettes
3 editions - first published in 1970
Ghosts
3 editions - first published in 1937
Roman fever: and other stories.
3 editions - first published in 1983
False Dawn: (The 'forties)
3 editions - first published in 1924 Borrow
The spark: (The 'sixties)
3 editions - first published in 1924 Borrow
"Muse's Tragedy" and Other Stories
3 editions - first published in 1990 Borrow
Les chemins parcourus
2 editions - first published in 2000
Madame de Treymes, and others; four novelettes
2 editions - first published in 1970 Borrow
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Vol 2
2 editions - first published in 2006
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 1
2 editions - first published in 2006
Madame De Treymes and Two Novellas
2 editions - first published in 2007
Una Mirada Atras
2 editions - first published in 1995
Sur les rives de l'Hudson
2 editions - first published in 1998
Le Fruit de l'arbre
2 editions - first published in 2001
Le Temps de l'innocence
2 editions - first published in 1993
Short Works of Edith Wharton
2 editions - first published in 2007
The Age of Innocence
2 editions - first published in 2002
The House of Mirth
2 editions - first published in 2006
La Splendeur des Lansing
2 editions - first published in 2001
Souls Belated
2 editions - first published in 1993
House of Mirth
2 editions - first published in 2004
The Demanding Dead: more stories of terror and the supernatural
2 editions - first published in 2007
Certain people
2 editions - first published in 1930
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belport ...
2 editions - first published in 1919
Buccaneers
2 editions - first published in 1994
The ghost-feeler: stories of terror and the supernatural
2 editions - first published in 1996 Borrow
Works of Edith Wharton: illustrated with an introduction by Ruth Lake Tepper.
2 editions - first published in 1987
Artemis to Actæon and other verse
2 editions - first published in 1909 Read
An Edith Wharton treasury
2 editions - first published in 1950
Ethan Frome and Summer
2 editions - first published in 2001
New Year's Day: (The 'seventies)
2 editions - first published in 1924 Borrow
The hermit and the wild woman and other stories ; Ethan Frome
2 editions - first published in 1914 Read
Eternal passion in English poetry
2 editions - first published in 1939
The portable Edith Wharton
2 editions - first published in 2003
The Mission of Jane
2 editions - first published in 1994
The Eyes
2 editions - first published in 1994
Short stories of Edith Wharton, 1910-1937
2 editions - first published in 1968 Borrow
The Edith Wharton omnibus
2 editions - first published in 1978 Borrow
HOUSE OF MIRTH (House of Mirth SL 41)
1 edition - first published in 2000
Reef (Reef Hre)
1 edition - first published in 1977
Age of Innocence (Age of Innocence Hre)
1 edition - first published in 1976
THE VIRAGO BOOK OF GHOST STORIES VOLUME 2 -THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1 edition - first published in 1994

People

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Anna Catherine Bahlmann (1849-1916), Bernard Augustine De Voto (1897-1955), Edith Newbold Wharton (1862-1937), Edith Wharton, Frederick Orridge Macmillan (1851-1936), Louis Bromfield (1896-1956), Léon Bélugou (1865-1934), Thomas Jefferson Bryan (1800?-1870)

Time

20th century, 19th century, 1865-1918, 1918-1945, Fiction

Links (outside Open Library)

Edith Wharton Collection at ale University Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscript Library

Alternative names

Edith Newbold Wharton
Edith. Wharton
Edith, Wharton
Edith Wharton
EDITH WHARTON
Wharton, Edith/ Lorna, Raver (NRT)
Edith Newbold (Jones) Wharton
WHARTON, EDITH, 1862-1937.
Wharton Edith
E Wharton
Wharton e
Edithi Wharton
Edith Wharton
Flo Gibson
Narrator
E. Wharton
Edition Wharton
Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones 1862-1937.

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