American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and...

Whartons classic story of an aging (by Victorian-era standards) spinster socialite who would rather marry for money than for true love.(Summary by BellonaTimes)

Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons by E. Nesbit. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013. Edith Nesbit...

This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as...

Edith Whartons 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to...

It is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teachers example. It is also true that definite lessons, in which the subject can be considered in its...

The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounced...

This book is a children's fantasy novel written by E. Nesbit; it is followed by a trilogy of novels which follows the adventures of five children: Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane...

In this book E. Nesbit tells the story of six children named Dora, Oswald, Noël, Alice and H.O. Bastable and two children going to stay with them, Denny and Daisy. Children...