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.
A dramatic adaption of Wharton's novella. Ramsden states that there are “23 holographic corrections" included in the text. The Front Cover is black with gold letters of the title and author’s names.The next page just has the name of the story on it,…
This is the fourth of four novellas in the series Old New York. Edward C. Caswell illustrated the novel. The dusk jacket has a flower pattern that frames an image of a busy New York intersection. The dusk jacket has slight tears along the corners and…
This is the third of four novellas in the Old New York series. The dust jacket has a flower pattern that frames a picture of a row of men holding guns. The dusk jacket has several tears, revealing a blue cover underneath. Edward C. Caswell…
This is the second of four novellas in Wharton's Old New York series. The cover has a picture of a house surrounded by woods set in a blue cover. The front endpaper has one of Edward C. Caswell's illustrations, showing an aristorcratic man and woman…
This is the first of four novellas. The cover has a tattered flower-patterned dust jacket, whose tears reveal a blue cover underneath. Front endpaper features a picture of a man in a top hat gazing off a body of water, with several prominent…
Edith Wharton's signature is present before the title page. This is the first English edition. This novella is about the aftereffects of the French battles during World War I along the Marne River through the viewpoint of an American boy, Troy…
This is a novella about a man who moves his family from Moscow to a village with horrible living conditions. Its reception was controversial due to Tchkhov's realistic portrayal of impoverished, lower class Russian life.
Translated from Russian to…