"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. With The Buccaneers, new audiences may ...

The trouble with Summer...is that Mrs. Wharton rather forces her note. It is not that seduction as a scheme for literary bouleversement is a little out of date. There is no such thing as a catastrophe ...

Edith Wharton and Brooke Astor grew up more than a generation apart, and although they never met, their lives seem to touch. Both were grandes dames who hobnobbed with presidents (Wharton with Teddy ...

Edith Wharton’s novels rarely go more than a couple of years without a film or television adaptation. They are certainly never absent from high school and college curricula. Wharton was a taste-maker ...

Silly me. My house is a short drive from The Mount, Edith Wharton’s handsome spread in Lenox, and I visit often. But only now have I realized that this long-dead Bard of the Berkshires (several of her ...

Regretfully, James W. Tuttleton’s “The Feminist Takeover of Edith Wharton” (March 1989) was brought to my attention and part of me would like not to dignify this “mean-spirited and condescending ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton was one of the most prolific American writers of the early 20th century, offering a glimpse ...

In The Atlantic's early years, he was the poet of the age. But was he a great poet? David Barber introduces a selection of Longfellow's poems that were originally published in The Atlantic. From the ...

Edith Wharton is not a writer most of us probably associate with war. With the frosty, treacherous, yet bloodless drawing-room battles of Gilded Age New York, yes. With the stink and smoking gore of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. Wharton was an unlikely writer: her upbringing was in the ...

Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer Craving More of ‘The Gilded Age’? Read These Books Next. If you’re reeling after ...

The publication of the letters of a major author is always a cause for excitement, for it allows us to peek behind a public literary facade and witness the inner workings of a finely tuned creative ...