Author:Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton
(1862–1937)

Edith Wharton

Works

Novels

• The Valley of Decision (1902)
• The House of Mirth (1905)
• The Fruit of the Tree (1907)
• The Reef (1912)
• The Custom of the Country (1913)
• Summer (1917) (transcription project)
• The Marne (1918)
• The Age of Innocence (1920) Pulitzer Prize winner
• The Glimpses of the Moon (1922)
• A Son at the Front (1923) (transcription project)
• The Mother's Recompense (1925)
• Twilight Sleep (1927)
• The Children (1928) (external scan)
• Hudson River Bracketed (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
• The Gods Arrive (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028 due to Renewal R245021
• The Buccaneers (1938) unfinished

Novellas

• The Touchstone (1900)
• Sanctuary (1903)
• Madame de Treymes (1907)
• Ethan Frome (1911)
• The Bunner Sisters (1916)
• Old New York (1924)

  vol. 1 False Dawn (transcription project)

  vol. 2 The Old Maid (transcription project)

  vol. 3 The Spark (transcription project)

  vol. 4 New Year's Day (transcription project)

Poems

• Aeropagus (March 1880)
• All Saints (1909)
• All Souls (1909)
• An Autumn Sunset (1909)
• Artemis to Actaeon (1902)
• Battle Sleep (1917)
• Belgium (1917)
• Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre (1891)
• The Bread of Angels (1902)
• Chartres (1893)
• The Comrade (1910)
• The Eumenides (1909)
• Euryalus (1889)
• Experience (1909)
• A Failure (April 1880)
• A Grave (1909)
• The Great Blue Tent (1915)
• Grief (1909)
• Happiness (1889)
• A Hunting Song (1909)
• The Hymn of the Lusitania (1915)
• Jade (1895)
• The Last Giustianini (1889)
• Life (1894)
• Margaret of Cortona (1909)
• A Meeting (1909)
• Moonrise over Tyringham (1908)
• The Mortal Lease (1909)
• Mould and Vase (1901)
• Non Dolet (1909)
• The Old Pole Star (1908)
• Ogrin the Hermit (1909)
• The One Grief (1898)
• Only a Child (1879)
• Orpheus (Wharton) (1909)
• The Parting Day (1880)
• Patience (1880)
• Phaedra (1898)
• Pomegranate Seed (1912)
• The Sonnet (1891)
• Summer Afternoon (Bodiam Castle, Sussex) (1911)
• Survival (1909)
• The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi (1891)
• The Torch-Bearer (1903)
• The Tryst, in The Book of the Homeless (1916)
• Two Backgrounds (1892)
• Uses (1902)
• Vesalius in Zante (1902)
• Wants (1880)
• With the Tide (1919)
• You and You; to the American Private in the Great War (1919)

Short stories

Collections

• The Greater Inclination (1899) (external scan)
• The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904) (transcription project)
• Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910) short stories, serially published as Tales of Men in Scribner's Magazine, 1909-1910 IA

Individual stories

• "Copy". A Dialogue (play) (June 1900, Scribner's Magazine)
• A Coward
• A Cup of Cold Water
• A Journey
• A Venetian Night's Entertainment
• Afterward
  • Afterward at the University of Michigan
• Autre Temps
• The Choice
• Coming Home, (Dec 1915, Scribner's Magazine)
• Crucial Instances
• Expiation
• Full Circle
• His Father's Son, (June 1909, Scribner's Magazine)
• In Trust (1906)
• Kerfol (1916)
• Mrs. Manstey's View, (July 1891, Scribner's Magazine)
• Roman Fever
• The Seed of the Faith, (Jan 1919, Scribner's Magazine)
• Souls Belated
• The Angel at the Grave, (Feb 1901, Scribner's Magazine)
• The Best Man
• The Blond Beast, (Sep 1910, Scribner's Magazine)
• The Bolted Door, (Mar 1910, Scribner's Magazine)
• The Confessional
• The Daunt Diana
• The Debt
• The Descent of Man
• The Dilettante
• The Duchess at Prayer, (1900, Scribner's Magazine)
• The Eyes
• The Fulness of Life
• The Hermit and the Wild Woman
• The House of the Dead Hand
• The Introducers, (1905 Dec, 1906 Jan, Ainslee's Magazine)
• The Lady's Maid's Bell
• The Last Asset
• The Legend (Mar 1910 Scribner's Magazine)
• The Letter
• "The Long Run", in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 109, Issue 651 (February 1912)
• The Mission of Jane
• The Moving Finger
• The Muse's Tragedy
• The Other Two
• The Pelican
• The Portrait
• The Pot-Boiler
• The Pretext
• The Quicksand
• The Recovery
• The Reckoning
• The Rembrandt
• "The Seed of the Faith", (1919 Scribner's Magazine)
• The Triumph of Night, (Aug 1914, Scribner's Magazine)
• The Twilight of the God
• The Verdict
• Xingu, in Scribner's Magazine, Dec 1911

Non-fiction

• The Decoration of Houses, with Ogden Codman 1897 IA
• "A Midsummer Week's Dream: August in Italy," Scribner's Magazine, Aug 1902
• "Picturesque Milan", in Scribner's Magazine, Feb 1903
• Italian Villas and Their Gardens, 1904
• Italian Backgrounds, 1905
• A Motor-Flight Through France, 1908 (travel)
• "George Cabot Lodge", in Scribner's Magazine, Feb 1910
• Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort, 1915 (war) (start transcription)
• "In Argonne," Scribner's Magazine, Jun 1915
• "In Lorraine and the Vosges," Scribner's Magazine, Oct 1915
• "In the North," Scribner's Magazine, Nov 1915
• "The Look of Paris" (August, 1914—February, 1915), Scribner's Magazine, 1915
• French Ways and Their Meaning, 1919
• In Morocco, 1920 (travel) (transcription project)
• The Writing of Fiction, 1925 (essays on writing) (transcription project)
• A Backward Glance, 1934 (autobiography)
• Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings, Edited by Frederick Wegener, 1996
• Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888–1920, Edited by Sarah Bird Wright, 1995

Translations

• In Stories by Foreign Authors—Italian (1898):
  • "A Great Day", by Edmondo De Amicis (orig. 1878)
  • "College Friends", by Edmondo De Amicis (orig. 1878)
  • "It Snows" ("Nevica"), by Enrico Castelnuovo (orig. 1878)
• In The Book of the Homeless (1916):
  • "The Precious Blood", by Paul Claudel
  • "How the Young Men died in Hellas", by Jean Cocteau
  • "An Epitaph", by Francis Jammes
  • "Our Dead", by Anna de Noailles
  • "The Exile", by Henri de Régnier
  • "The New Spring", by Émile Verhaeren
  • "The Brothers", by Maurice Barrès
  • "A Promise", by Sarah Bernhardt
  • "One Year Later", by Paul Bourget
  • "The Right to Liberty", by Eleonora Duse

Other

• The Book of the Homeless (1916) (as editor)

Works about Wharton

• "Wharton, Edith (Jones)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Wharton, Edith," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)