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…
Inscribed with “Edith Wharton from G.L.” This translation is by R.G.D. Laffan (“fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge”) with a preface by Gaillard Lapsley (“fellow and lecturer in Trinity College, Cambridge”).