Edith Wharton. The Complete Works

Edith Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence.

Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome.

Wharton's writings often dealt with themes such as social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the new elite.

A key recurring theme in Wharton's writing is the relationship between the house as a physical space and its relationship to its inhabitant's characteristics and emotions.

Contents

    The Novels

Fast and Loose

The Valley of Decision

Sanctuary

The House of Mirth

The Fruit of the Tree

Ethan Frome

The Reef

The Custom of the Country

Summer

The Age of Innocence

The Glimpses of the Moon

A Son at the Front

The Mother’s Recompense

Twilight Sleep

The Children

Hudson River Bracketed

The Gods Arrive

The Buccaneers

    The Novellas

The Touchstone

Madame de Treymes

The Marne

Old New York

    The Short Story Collections

The Greater Inclination

Crucial Instances

The Descent of Man and Other Stories

The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories

Tales of Men and Ghosts

Uncollected Early Short Stories

Xingu and Other Stories

Here and Beyond

Certain People

Human Nature

The World Over

Ghosts

    The Short Stories

List of Stories in Chronological Order

List of Stories in Alphabetical Order

    The Play

The Joy of Living

    The Poetry

Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

Uncollected Poetry

    The Non-Fiction

The Decoration of Houses

Italian Villas and Their Gardens

Italian Backgrounds

A Motor-Flight Through France

France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

French Ways and Their Meaning

In Morocco

The Writing of Fiction

    The Autobiography

A Backward Glance