Presents a detailed chronology of the life and career of author Edith Wharton, along with the text of her classic novel "The House of Mirth," introduction, and textual notes.
Engaged to the docile May Welland, Newland Archer falls madly in love with the nonconformist Countess Olenska, an older woman with a reputation, but his allegiance to the social code of their set makes their love an impossibility.
A collection of four novellas by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton that portray the customs and values of New York society from the 1840s through the 1870s.
