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Novels and Novellas

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.
    • 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.

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    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 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
  • Pictures from the first edition of The House of Mirth
  • Sanctuary
  • Madame de Treymes (1907). Illustrated HTML at Virginia. 
  • Madame de Treymes (1907). Text at the Wharton Society site (from Project Gutenberg)
  • The Fruit of the Tree (1907)
  • Ethan Frome (1911). HTML at litrix.com.
  • Ethan Frome (1911). Text at theWharton Society site (from Project Gutenberg).
  • See the SUMMARY at http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/wharton/id7.htm
  • The Reef (1912). Text file from Project Gutenberg.
  • The Custom of the Country (1913)
  • Summer(1917).Text file from Project Gutenberg.
  • 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).