Wharton, Edith

Lauren Willig's The English Wife brings back the Gilded Age. It was a treacherous, opulent world. It immerses readers in an era immortalized by Edith Wharton, Mark Twain,...

Edith Wharton was a New Yorker, a fact that was very evident in her novels. The sense of place is pervasive, as is the feeling of impending doom....