Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into the very world she would later anatomize with such surgical precision—the old-money aristocracy of New York City. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and she wielded her insider's knowledge of America's ruling class like a scalpel, exposing the cruelty that lurked beneath the silk and silver. This author hub collects 3 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Age of Innocence.
Start with The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, ranked #97 in the Canon Compass list.
Featured Books
Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: forbidden love and suffocating convention in 1870s New York high society. A Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: Lily Bart's tragic descent through New York's gilded elite. Beauty, ambition, and social ruin.
Explore Edith Wharton's tragic novella of forbidden love and desperation in frozen rural New England.