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
Illustrations from the first edition of The House of Mirth

For information on films made from Edith Wharton's works, go to the Edith Wharton Filmography.

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

Novel Text or html file Page images at Google books
The Touchstone (1900) The Touchstone (1900)  
The Valley of Decision (1902) The Valley of Decision (1902)  
The House of Mirth (1905).
Pictures from the first edition of The House of Mirth		 The House of Mirth (1905). The House of Mirth
Sanctuary    
The Fruit of the Tree (1907) The Fruit of the Tree The Fruit of the Tree
Madame de Treymes (1907). Madame de Treymes (1907). Madame de Treymes
Ethan Frome (1911). Ethan Frome  
The Reef (1912). The Reef (1912).  
The Custom of the Country (1913) The Custom of the Country (1913)  
Summer (1917)   Summer (1917)
The Marne (1918)    
The Age of Innocence(1920). The Age of Innocence(1920).  
The Glimpses of the Moon (1922) The Glimpses of the Moon (1922)  
A Son at the Front (1923)    

Old New York (1924) (No U.S. access)

The Spark, False Dawn, New Year's Day, The Old Maid

    
The Mother's Recompense (1925)    
Twilight Sleep (1927)    
The Children (1928)    
Hudson River Bracketed (1929)    
The Gods Arrive (1932)    
The Buccaneers (1938) (searchable full text at Michigan)    
Fast and Loose (1977)    

  • Several Wharton stories and novels are available for PalmPilot and other handheld computers at www.memoware.com (free). 

    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 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