Novels and Novellas

Works by Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
An Edith Wharton Chronology (includes more exact dates of publication)
Edith Wharton's stories with original dates of publication

For information on films made from Edith Wharton's works, go to the Edith Wharton Filmography.
  • Contemporary reviews of Edith Wharton's works are available online at the University of Virginia E-text Center.

    • You can also get free, computer-generated audiobook versions of some of these works at Project Gutenberg.

    Note: The poems, early short stories, and some novels are now housed at this site, so using this search feature will help to find quotations and specific words and phrases. To make the process more precise, this search leads only to Wharton's texts, not to the rest of the site.

    To see the works included in the search feature, go to http://www.edithwhartonsociety.org/books/index.html


    The University of Virginia Text Center has made available free versions of Wharton's stories, poems, and novels for PalmOS devices and Microsoft E-books Readers. 

    Penn State's Electronic Classics Series has made Wharton's works available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format at http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/wharton.htm

    The Project Gutenberg collection of Edith Wharton's works includes computer-generated audio files.

  • The Age of Innocence - 572 KB
  • Bunner Sisters - 186 KB (See also the Project Gutenberg version at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/bunnr10.txt)
  • The Touchstone - 168 KB
  • House of Mirth - 706 KB
  • Summer - 318 KB
  • The Glimpses of the Moon - 466 KB
  • The Reef - 531 KB
  • Early Short Fiction - 249 KB
  • Early Short Fiction: Part Two - 260 KB
  • Verse - 32.5 KB
  • The Touchstone (1900).Text file from Project Gutenberg.
  • The Valley of Decision (1902)
  • The House of Mirth (1905).Text file from Project Gutenberg
  • Sanctuary
  • The Fruit of the Tree (1907) Project Gutenberg
  • Madame de Treymes (1907). Illustrated HTML at Virginia. 
  • Ethan Frome (1911). HTML at litrix.com.
  • The Reef (1912). Text file from Project Gutenberg.
  • The Custom of the Country (1913) (Project Gutenberg)
  • Summer (1917).Page images from Google Books.
  • The Marne (1918)
  • The Age of Innocence(1920). Text file from Project Gutenberg.
  • The Glimpses of the Moon (1922). Text file from Project Gutenberg.
  • A Son at the Front (1923)
  • Old New York (1924)
  • The Mother's Recompense (1925)
  • Twilight Sleep (1927)
  • The Children (1928)
  • Hudson River Bracketed (1929)
  • The Gods Arrive (1932)
  • The Buccaneers (1938)
  • Fast and Loose (1977)
    • Several Wharton stories and novels are available for PalmPilot and other handheld computers at www.memoware.com (free).