Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

by Richard H. Lawson

1977

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An introduction to the major works of Edith Wharton which opens with a description of the now extinct New York society in which she grew up and whose foibles and corruptability she later depicted in such novels as The age of innocence and The house of mirth. These two works and three others The custom of the country, The reef and Ethan Frome, probably her most famous novel, are discussed and analyzed in detail.