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List of the best Edith Wharton books, ranked by voracious readers in the Ranker community. With commercial success and critical acclaim, there's no doubt that Edith Wharton is one of the most popular authors of the last 100 years. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Wharton is known for her sharp wit and observations about class in America. If you're a huge fan of her work, then vote on your favorite novels below and make your opinion count. This poll is also a great resource for new fans of Edith Wharton who want to know which novels they should start reading first. With memorable characters and excellent storytelling, there's no reason why you shouldn't check out her work if you're a big reader.Books on this list range from Ethan Frome to The House of Mirth. What are Edith Wharton's best novels? Vote on this list and help us definitively answer that question.

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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, is the story of Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man, a hothouse flower for conspicuous consumption. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her.
Written in the style of a novel of manners, The House of Mirth was the fourth novel by Edith Wharton, which tells the story of Lily Bart against the background of the high-society of upper class New York City of the 1890s; as a genre novel, The House of Mirth is an example of American literary naturalism.

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.

Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993.

The Custom of the Country

The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.

Summer

Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. The story is one of only two novels to be set in New England by Wharton, who was best known for her portrayals of upper-class New York society. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better-known novel, Ethan Frome. Only moderately well received when originally published, Summer has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960s.

The Buccaneers

The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy's inviting Nan to a house party to which Guy Thwarte has also been invited.

Roman Fever & Other Stories

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

The Reef

The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It concerns a romance between a widow and her old lover. It was adapted into a film The Reef in 1999 starring Sela Ward, Timothy Dalton and Alicia Witt.

The glimpses of the moon

The glimpses of the moon is a book written by Edith Wharton.

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

The Decoration of Houses

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 Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially those rooms that were decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture. They argued that such rooms emphasized upholstery at the expense of proper space planning and architectural design and were, therefore, uncomfortable and rarely used. Wharton and Codman advocated the creation of houses with rooms decorated with strong architectural wall and ceiling treatments, accentuated by well-suited furniture, rooms based on simple, classical design principles such as symmetry and proportion and a sense of architectural balance. The Decoration of Houses is considered a seminal work and its success led to the emergence of professional decorators working in the manner advocated by its authors, most notably Elsie de Wolfe. The book was reprinted by The Mount and Rizzoli and in a hardcover facsimile in 2007.

The Valley of Decision

The mother's recompense

Bunner Sisters

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Certain people

Italian Backgrounds

Old New York

Twilight sleep

The Touchstone

The Touchstone is a novella written by Edith Wharton. It was published in 1900 and was her first published novella.

The fruit of the tree

A son at the front

The children

False dawn

List of the best Edith Wharton books, ranked by voracious readers in the Ranker community. With commercial success and critical acclaim, there's no doubt that ...

Comic Books

Everyone loves a good splash page. It grabs the reader&#39;s attention by popping an important image off the page. They can pass along important exposition; they can fill you in on the past; they can (and usually are) used to portray epic action shots, but one thing&#39;s for sure: they really give the artist a chance to flex their pencils, inks, and colors to the max.

So what are splash pages, exactly? A splash page is any page without other panels. It can be a single page (such as the opening page with credits and such) a double splash page (such as the center fold staple-y area of the book) or a multi-page fold-out sprawling poster deal (Big in the &#39;90s, hard to keep pretty).

Below are some of the most iconic and gorgeous splash pages in mainstream comics!