Edith Wharton

Beautiful, sophisticated and endlessly ambitious Lily Bart endeavours to climb the social ladder of New York's elite by securing a good match and living beyond her means....

Countess Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society....

In The Custom of the Country, Wharton’s scathing social commentary is on full display through the beautiful and manipulative Undine Spragg....

This carefully curated collection brings together some of the most influential and enduring works in American literature.

Ethan Frome is Edith Wharton’s masterful tale of isolation, duty, and forbidden longing set against the stark backdrop of rural New England.

The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel....

Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York’s high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland....

The American Classics Collection - Volume Two includes some of the most iconic and influential works of American literature, read by a talented team of narrators including Adam Sims, Nathan Osgood, Jonathan Keeble, Robert G. Slade, Ian Porter, Chirstopher Ragland, Katherine Fenton, and Peter Noble.

Whether it is sex, drugs, or infatuation with the occult, Mrs. Manford and her extended family of socialites are determined to escape the pain, boredom, and emptiness of life through whatever form of “twilight sleep” they can devise or procure....

Beneath the brilliance that was behind The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was a dark side....

A challenge to the moral climate of the day, The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath....

When young Mattie Silver arrives at her cousin Zeena Frome's farm in the New England village of...

In Morocco is Edith Wharton's remarkable account of her journey to that country during World War I....

In Hudson River Bracketed, Edith Wharton illuminates the creative process of writing. Vance Weston, a young Midwesterner yearning to be a writer, travels to New York in pursuit of his dreams. On the Hudson River, in an old house called The Willows, he meets a kindred spirit.

Lily Bart, a beautiful, intelligent, but penniless young woman, lives on the outskirts of New York's high society...

Set deep in the remote countryside of Massachusetts, New England, in a world of small-town prejudice, pettiness and rural poverty, the story of Ethan Frome explores the crippling marriage of a young man to an older woman and his love for her vibrant young cousin, Mattie....

Orphaned following the death of her parents, Lily understands that she must use her beauty, grace, and charm to attain the social position she longs for, but she is caught between her desire for wealth and a strong moral conscience, which sabotages every opportunity she encounters....

A BBC radio collection of full-cast dramatisations, bringing together Edith Wharton’s most popular and best-loved works....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more.

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal which takes place in the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York....