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    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones on January 24, 1862, to a wealthy New York City family. Best known for her novels, Wharton’s illustrious literary career also included poetry, short stories, design books, and travelogues. She gained widespread recognition with the 1905 publication of The House of Mirth, a darkly comic portrait of New York aristocracy. In 1921, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920), becoming the fi rst woman to claim it. Wharton moved to France in 1913, where she remained until her death. In addition to her many literary accolades, Wharton was awarded a French Legion of Honor medal for her humanitarian efforts during World War I. Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937.

    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones on January 24, 1862, to a wealthy New York City family. Best known for her novels, Wharton’s illustrious literary career also included poetry, short stories, design books, and travelogues. She gained widespread recognition with the 1905 publication of The House of Mirth, a darkly comic portrait of New York aristocracy. In 1921, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920), becoming the fi rst woman to claim it. Wharton moved to France in 1913, where she remained until her death. In addition to her many literary accolades, Wharton was awarded a French Legion of Honor medal for her humanitarian efforts during World War I. Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937.

    Books by Edith Wharton

    • The House of Mirth

      Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons

      Paperback, 1990

      This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's quintessential novel of the Gilded Age reprints the Scribner's magazine text of 1905, including the eight original illustrations.

    • Ethan Frome: A Norton Critical Edition

      Edith Wharton, Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff

      First Edition, Paperback, 1995

      This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911.

    • The House of Mirth: A Norton Critical Edition

      Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons

      Second Edition, Paperback, 2018

    • The Age of Innocence: A Norton Critical Edition

      Edith Wharton, Candace Waid

      First Edition, Paperback, 2003

      The text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar.

    • The Age of Innocence (The Norton Library)

      Edith Wharton, Sheila Liming

      First Edition, E Book, 2022

    • The Age of Innocence (The Norton Library)

      Edith Wharton, Sheila Liming

      First Edition, Paperback, 2022

    • French Ways and Their Meaning

      Edith Wharton

      Paperback, 2004

    • The Decoration of Houses

      Ogden Codman Jr., Edith Wharton

      Paperback, 1998

      In addition to her fame as a novelist, Edith Wharton has now been recognized as an arbiter of taste and correct usage in the making of domestic interior rooms, and Odgen Codman, Jr., has achieved...

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