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1	Ethan Frome more books like this by Edith Wharton This tragic short novel tells the tale of Ethan Frome, who lives an isolated life in cold New England. When his mother dies, he marries his cousin Zeena for companionship, rather than for love. When they hire Mattie Silver as a live-in household helper, Ethan and the young Mattie fall desperately in love. Inevitably, Zeena discovers the affair. see all copies from £1.20! new only from £1.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Age of Innocence more books like this by Edith Wharton THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is Edith Wharton's insider's look at New York society at a time when an address above 12th Street was considered the wild frontier. May Welland, demure and pretty, is born and bred to marry Newland Archer, a thoughtful barrister. He in turn loves the brazen, unconventional, and attractive Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left ... see all copies from £1.20! new only from £1.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	House of Mirth more books like this by Edith Wharton Published in 1905, Edith Wharton's first novel, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, navigates the murky waters of class-bound courtship and marriage in turn-of-the-century upper-crust Manhattan. Ironic, sharp, and tragic, the novel follows beautiful, orphaned Lily Bart in her search for a rich husband--the only route open to her if she is to survive in a ... see all copies from £1.20! new only from £1.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Summer more books like this by Edith Wharton Wharton called this companion novel to Ethan Frome, "hot Ethan." The heroine, Charity Royall (unlike Ethan Frome), is determined to experience passion and engages in a tempestuous love affair with Lucius Harney, a young man who has drifted into the Berkshires during his college vacation. Eventually, Charity becomes pregnant. The novel reflects the ... see all copies from £1.39! new only from £3.83! \| first editions
5	Decoration of Houses more books like this by Edith Wharton Edith Wharton excelled not only at creating fiction but at decorating her homes and at analyzing the decor of the homes of her friends and acquaintances. This classic contains Wharton's thoughts on her own "Pavillon Colombe" on the Ile de France, her estate in the Berkshires, the neoclassical houses of New York City's Upper East Side with which ... see all copies from £7.84! new only from £10.21! \| first editions
6	Custom of the Country more books like this by Edith Wharton THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY marks Edith Wharton's return to the satiric tone of THE HOUSE OF MIRTH. She follows bored, passive Ralph Marvell, a gentle young man with the heart of a poet, as he squanders his family's modest inheritance in an attempt to find happiness. But the real star of Wharton's narrative is the beautiful, ambitious, and blatantly ... see all copies from £1.61! new only from £4.80! \| first editions
7	Reef more books like this by Edith Wharton Anna Leath, the American widow of a Frenchman, discovers that the man she is now engaged to has been the lover of her stepson's fiance, who is also her daughter's governess. This book explores the consequences of acting on one's sexual impulses. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £4.82! \| first editions
8	Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton more books like this by Edith Wharton A collection of 11 ghost stories, written by the celebrated American novelist (author of "Ethan Frome" and "The Age of Innocence"). see all copies from £4.82! new only from £7.78! \| first editions
9	In Morocco more books like this by Edith Wharton First published in 1919, this account of the novelist's travels through Morocco at the end of World War I depicts the country at the "brief moment of transition between its virtually complete subjection to European authority and the fast approaching hour when it is thrown open to all the banalities and promiscuities of modern travel." Drawn form ... see all copies from £2.12! new only from £8.37! \| first editions
10	The buccaneers more books like this by Edith Wharton Edith Wharton's last novel, unfinished when she died in 1937, was published in its incomplete state in 1938. The title refers to the bold actions of a group of four young American debutantes who seek to use their vast wealth to acquire aristocratic European husbands. see all copies from £1.20! new only from £6.32! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Age of Innocence more books like this by Wharton Edith Wharton THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is Edith Wharton's insider's look at New York society at a time when an address above 12th Street was considered the wild frontier. May Welland, demure and pretty, is born and bred to marry Newland Archer, a thoughtful barrister. He in turn loves the brazen, unconventional, and attractive Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left ... see all copies from £1.20! new only from £8.19! \| first editions
12 view cover	Old New York more books like this by Edith Wharton From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence come four masterly short novels of New York during the 19th century, revealing with subtle irony the customs and tribal codes that ruled Society. see all copies from £2.25! new only from £6.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Ethan Frome & Summer more books like this by Edith Wharton This book features two of Wharton's most famous novels -- "Ethan Frome and Summer" -- both set in dark, rigid New England far from Wharton's socialite New York. Ethan Frome is the story of a young man, trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an ailing older woman. Yearning for his wife's orphaned cousin who has come to live on his isolated farm, ... see all copies from £2.18! new only from £4.82! \| first editions
14 view cover	Glimpses of the moon more books like this by Edith Wharton Wharton's comic novel follows the exploits of a young newlywed couple, Nick and Susy Lansing, who agree to become fortune hunters and marry for money. While sponging off the generosity of their friends and relatives, they agree to continue to seek other more suitable partners despite their marriage, but ironically, end up in love with each other. see all copies from £2.72! new only from £5.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Children more books like this by Wharton The 1928 best-selling story of the seven Wheater children, victims of their parents' bad marriage, and Martin Boyne, the lonely bachelor who befriends them. see all copies from £1.20! new only from £3.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Backward Glance more books like this by Edith Wharton Wharton's fans, as well as readers eager to learn more about the literary, social, and historical forces that shaped this honored American author, are certain to be informed and entertained by this excellent self-portrait. 9 photos. see all copies from £2.10! new only from £8.94! \| first editions
17 view cover	Roman Fever & Other Stories more books like this by Edith Wharton These short works display Wharton's talent as a satirist "skilled at dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social constrictions" (Cythina Griffin Wolfe, from the Introduction). see all copies from £1.20! new only from £6.62! \| first editions
18 view cover	Twilight Sleep more books like this by Edith Wharton Wharton's satirical novel of the Jazz Age, originally published in 1927, portrays a society that seeks refuge from pain in drugs, alcohol, sex, work, and money. see all copies from £5.00! new only from £8.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The New York Stories of Edith Wharton more books like this by Edith Wharton, Roxana Robinson (Compiled by) A New York Review Books Original Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops' nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed ... see all copies from £7.85! new only from £9.00!
20 view cover	The Mother's Recompense more books like this by Edith Wharton An unconventional story of incest, jealousy, and coincidence, told from the point-of-view of an aging expatriate woman. see all copies from £2.13! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Wharton Novels more books like this by Edith Wharton The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ... see all copies from £14.83! new only from £16.14! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Fruit of the Tree more books like this by Edith Wharton This little known novel by the author of "The Age of Innocence" is constructed around a complex plot involving the theme of social justice, the moral dilemma of euthanasia, the increasingly independent role of women, and the romantic entanglements of high society. see all copies from £5.40! new only from £7.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The buccaneers : a novel more books like this by Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring see all copies from £2.11! new only from £4.82! \| first editions
24 view cover	Hudson River Bracketed more books like this by Edith Wharton The story of Vance Weston, a young novelist-of-manners from the town of Euphoria, Illinois, and his apprenticeship in the New York publishing world. see all copies from £2.43! new only from £12.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	House of Mirth more books like this by Wharton Edith Wharton Published in 1905, Edith Wharton's first novel, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, navigates the murky waters of class-bound courtship and marriage in turn-of-the-century upper-crust Manhattan. Ironic, sharp, and tragic, the novel follows beautiful, orphaned Lily Bart in her search for a rich husband--the only route open to her if she is to survive in a ... see all copies from £4.82! new only from £7.24! \| signed copies \| first editions

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