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The Edith Wharton Collection includes four major works. All editions are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus and notes.

The Age of Innocence

An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York high society in the 1870s – the world in which Edith Wharton grew up – The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order.

Ethan Frome

A marked contrast to the mordantly satirical novels of manners set among New York high society for which she is best known, this story set in rural Massachusetts is considered by many to be Edith Wharton’s highest achievement, and is unsurpassed as a study of forbidden love and thwarted desire.

The House of Mirth

Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, Edith Wharton’s enduringly popular novel of manners is a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age, as well as a universal satire on the constraints and follies of upper-crust conventions.

The Touchstone

The first of Edith Wharton’s works depicting life in “old New York”, The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella, and an exploration of the tension between self-serving opportunism and the desire to live a moral life.

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