Welcome to Edith Wharton's Library! This site displays searchable image files for the books contained in Wharton's library at The Mount, her historic estate in Lenox, MA.
Bound in marbled boards with a note from the publisher included: "With the author's compliments." The note is pro forma, but the words "the author's" have been handwritten in pencil. Lubbock's only novel, which Wharton privately criticized in a…
A memoir recounting Lubbock's childhood days at Earlham Hall, the home of his maternal grandparents in Norfolk. The book was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922.
The volume includes a handwritten note from the publisher, Jonathan…
New edition, in one volume, featuring forty illustrations. Frontispiece includes reproduction of photograph by Messrs. Bourne and Shepherd. Quoted underneath is, “FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS, V.C. From a photograph by Messrs. Bourne and …
This book follows the history of Chatham through the lens of a biography of Pitt.
This is one book is a series called the Twelve English Statesmen. The man this book pays attention to is William Pitt the Elder, Ist Earl of Chatham. He was a very…