Wharton: 570 books

The novel of manners is a realistic story that concentrates the reader's attention upon the customs and conversation, and the ways of thinking and valuing of the people of a social class. This Golden Deer Classics collection comprises the following classic novels of manners: Sense and Sensibility - Jane...

Edith Wharton was one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century.  Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America.  This edition of The Greater Inclination includes a table of contents.

The Children was written in the year 1928 by Edith Wharton. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edith Wharton, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Described by literary critic Robert Morss Lovett as "a novelist of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of culture, preoccupied with the upper ('and inner') class," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton (1862-1937)...

A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime. The best of her short fiction is collected here in Roman Fever and Other Stories. From her...

Hudson River Bracketed was written in the year 1929 by Edith Wharton. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edith Wharton, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches...

This early novel by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1918 and tells a tale of the First World War. Edith Wharton was a hugely successful writer and the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'. We are republishing this classic work with a brand new introductory biography of the author.

Originally published in 1925, The Mother's Recompense details the predicament Kate Clephane finds herself in when recalled to New York from her self-imposed exile to the French Riviera after she had abandoned her husband and infant daughter. What makes her return is the impending marriage of that same...

In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.

In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.

Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her war relief work in France, A Son at the Front(1923) opens in Paris on July 30, 1914, as Europe totters on thebrink of war. Expatriate American painter John Campton, whose only son George, having been born in Paris, must report for duty in the...

This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier. This book looks deeper into the conflict, utilising stories from new contributors providing revealing and long-forgotten stories of the troubles from the...

Ken Wharton's latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles the worst year of The Troubles - 1972 - a year in which 172 soldiers died as a direct consequence of the insanity that would grip Ulster for almost 30 years....