“It doesn’t make me esteem Wharton less. If anything, I take comfort in it, as a novelist.” Her own smash book “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is out in paperback. Credit...Rebecca Clarke ...

When she began writing “The Age of Innocence,” in September, 1919, Edith Wharton needed a best-seller. The economic ravages of the First World War had cut her annual income by about sixty per cent.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, The Shadow of a Doubt, explores the ...

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When Edith Wharton was nine years old she contracted typhoid fever and fell gravely ill. Confined to her bed, week after week, she wished most fervently not for recovery but for books. “During my ...

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Anthony Davis has written operas based on recent history. But now he is adapting, and dramatically changing, Wharton’s 1912 novel “The Reef.” By Seth Colter Walls The composer and pianist Anthony ...

Although “The Buccaneers” comes with the literary pedigree of being based on Edith Wharton’s last, unfinished novel, the series so desperately wants to emulate “Bridgerton” that it almost makes your ...

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This article examines a tension in Edith Wharton’s social ideal between the conflicting virtues of reverence and curiosity. Wharton, it shows, was quite conscious of the potential clash between the ...

In honor of Women's History Month, Shelf Life today pauses in appreciation of another woman of the page: Edith Wharton. To learn more about Wharton's life and work, click here and here. Click here to ...