Edith Wharton

Bibliography

Novels and Novellas

• The Touchstone (1900)
• The Valley of Decision (1902)
• Sanctuary (1903)
• The House of Mirth (1905)
• Madame de Treymes (1907)
• The Fruit of the Tree (1907)
• Ethan Frome (1911)
• The Reef (1912)
• The Custom of the Country (1913)
• Summer (1917)
• The Marne (1918)
• The Age of Innocence (1920)
• The Glimpses of the Moon (1922)
• A Son at the Front (1923)
• Old New York (1924)
  • False Dawn
  • The Old Maid
  • The Spark
  • The New Year's Day
• The Mother's Recompense (1925)
• Twilight Sleep (1927)
• The Children (1928)
• Hudson River Bracketed (1929)
• The Gods Arrive (1932)
• The Buccaneers (1938)
  – Left unfinished at Wharton's death; completed by Marion Mainwaring and published posthumously in 1993.
• Fast and Loose (1977)
  – Published posthumously.
• Library of America: Edith Wharton – Novels (1986)
• Library of America: Edith Wharton – Novellas and Other Writings (1990)
• Library of America: Edith Wharton – Four Novels (1996)
  • The House of Mirth
  • Ethan Frome
  • The Custom of the Country
  • The Age of Innocence

Short Stories

• The Greater Inclination (1899)
  • The Muse's Tragedy
    – Originally published in Scribner's (1899).
  • A Journey
  • The Pelican
  • Souls Belated
  • A Coward
  • The Twilight of the God
  • A Cup of Cold Water
  • The Portrait
• Crucial Instances (1901)
  • The Duchess at Prayer
  • The Angel at the Grave
  • The Recovery
  • Copy: A Dialogue
    – Originally published in Scribner's (1900).
  • The Rembrandt
  • The Moving Finger
  • The Confessional
• The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (1904)
  – Unless noted otherwise, originally published in Harper's Monthly (1902 – 1904).
  • The Descent of Man
    – Originally published in Scribner's (1904).
  • The Other Two
    – Originally published in Collier's Weekly (1904).
  • Expiation
    – Republished in Cosmopolitan (1908).
  • The Lady's Maid's Bell
    – Originally published in Scribner's (1902).
  • The Mission of Jane
  • The Reckoning
  • The Letter
  • The Dilettante
  • The Quicksand
  • A Venetian Night's Entertainment
    – Originally published in Scribner's (1903).
• The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908)
  – Unless noted otherwise, originally published in Scribner's (1904, 1906 & 1908).
  • The Hermit and the Wild Woman
  • The Last Asset
  • In Trust
    – Originally published in Appleton's Booklovers Magazine (1906).
  • The Pretext
  • The Verdict
  • The Pot-Boiler
  • The Best Man
    – Originally published in Collier's (1905).
• Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910)
  – Originally published in Scribner's (1908 – 1910). Afterward and The Letters originally published in Century Magazine (1910).
  • The Bolted Door
  • His Father's Son
  • The Daunt Diana
  • The Debt
  • Full Circle
  • The Legend
  • The Eyes
  • The Blond Beast
  • Afterward
  • The Letters
• Xingu and Other Stories (1916)
  • Xingu (Scribner's, December 1911)
  • Coming Home
  • Autre Temps ...
    – Originally published in Century (1911).
  • Kerfol
    – Originally published in Scribner's (1916).
  • The Long Run
  • The Triumph of Night
  • The Choice
  • Bunner Sisters
    – Novella written 1892; remained unpublished for 24 years.
• Here and Beyond (1926)
  • Miss Mary Pask
  • The Young Gentlemen
  • Bewitched
  • The Seed of the Faith
  • The Temperate Zone
  • Velvet Ear Pads
• Certain People (1930)
  • Atrophy
  • A Bottle of Perrier
  • After Holbein
  • Dieu d'Amour
  • The Refugees
  • Mr. Jones
• Human Nature (1933)
  • Her Son
  • The Day of the Funeral
  • A Glimpse
  • Joy in the House
  • Diagnosis
• The World Over (1936)
  • Charm Incorporated
  • Pomegranate Seed
  • Permanent Wave
  • Confession
  • Roman Fever
  • The Looking Glass
  • Duration
• Ghosts (1937)
• All Souls (1937)
  – Last completed story; published posthumously.
• The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1958)
• Collected Short Stories (1968)
• The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1973)
• Roman Fever and Other Stories (1981)
• Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction (1987)
• The Stories of Edith Wharton (1990)
• The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1991)
• The Muse's Tragedy and Other Stories (1992)
• Souls Belated and Other Stories (1993)
• Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome (1995)
• The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton (1998)
• Library of America: Edith Wharton – Collected Stories (2001)
  – 2 volumes: 1891 – 1910 and 1911 – 1937.
• The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural (2003)
• The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton (2003)

Poetry

• Verses (1878)
• Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (1909)

Translations

• The Joy of Living
  (Es Lebe das Leben! (1902), play by Hermann Sudermann)

Essays, Travel Sketches, Memoir, Correspondence and other Nonfiction

• A Tuscan Shrine (1895)
• The Decoration of Houses (1897)
  – With Ogden Codman, Jr.
• Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904)
• Italian Backgrounds (1905)
• A Motor-Flight Through France (1908)
• Fighting France from Dunquerque to Belforte (1915 & 1918)
• French Ways and their Meaning (1919)
• In Morocco (1920)
• The Writing of Fiction (1925)
• A Backward Glance (1934)
• The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)
• Henry James and Edith Wharthon: Letters 1900 – 1915 (1990)
• Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings (1995)
• The Cruise of the Vanadis (2001)

Compilations

• An Edith Wharton Treasury (1950)
• Edith Wharton Reader (1965)
• Edith Wharton Omnibus (1978)
• Edith Wharton: Great Classic Library (1994)
• The Portable Edith Wharton (2003)