Ethan Frome : New England farmer Ethan Frome, trapped in a loveless marriage, falls in love with Mattie Silver, his ailing wife's orphaned cousin, and attempts to free himself from the bonds of small town convention. Summer : A New England girl, contemptuous of and bored by the petty interests of her peers defies the moral strictures of the village to which she has been taken, living with a degenerate group of outlaws and surrendering to clandestine...

Faced with an array of wealthy suitors, New York socialite Lily Bart falls in love with lawyer Lawrence Selden, whose lack of money spoils their chances for happiness together. Dubious business deals and accusations of liaisons with a married man diminish Lily's social status, and as she makes one bad choice after another, she learns how venal and brutally unforgiving the upper crust of New York can be.--From publisher's description.

First published in 1913, Edith Wharton?s The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York?s high society from the nouveau riche provides a provocative commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin. One of Wharton?s most acclaimed works, The Custom...

The story, first published in 1903, of Kate Orme, who marries a man of weak moral character. When they have a child, she fears that the sins of the father will be the sins of their son.

In The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton, R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, has culled twenty-one of her best stories, here available in a single volume for the first time.

Early twentieth-century American author Edith Wharton's 1928 novel about a group of seven step-siblings who strike up a relationship with a solitary bachelor on a yacht while hoping that their parents' reconciliation lasts. One of Mrs. Wharton's latest novels, this is a story of expatriate Americans in the 1920s. Its theme is the predicament of children whose rich, pleasure-mad parents progress through marriages and divorces as casually as they flit...