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Nonfiction: Essays and Travel Pieces

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

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  • The Decoration of Houses (1897)
  • Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904)
  • A Motor-Flight Through France (1908)
  • Fighting France from Dunquerque to Belforte (1915, 1918) Illustrated HTML version at the Online Books Page
  • French Ways and their Meaning (1919)
  • In Morocco (1920)
  • The Writing of Fiction (1925)
  • A Backward Glance (1934)
  • The Letters of Edith Wharton (ed.) R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis (1988)
  • "A Tuscan Shrine" Scribner's (travel essay; January 1895) (MOA)
  •  "In an Alpine Posting-Inn" 
  • The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems