| Works by Edith Wharton (1862-1937) An Edith Wharton Chronology (includes more exact dates of publication) Edith Wharton’s stories with original dates of publication Information adapted from Shari Benstock, “Chronology of Works by Edith Wharton” in No Gifts from Chance, pp. 468-69. “Novellas” includes only those works published separately; others such as “Bunner Sisters” were included in short story collections. The following abbreviations indicate the first publishers for the primary works; see Benstock for the major reprints of these works to 1993. A = D. Appleton and Company |
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| Novels | Novellas | Short Stories | Travel, Essays, Plays, and Poems | |
| 1878 | Verses (privately printed by C. E. Hammett, Jr., Newport, R.I.) | |||
| 1897 | The Decoration of Houses (S) | |||
| 1899 | The Greater Inclination (S) | |||
| 1900 | The Touchstone (S) | |||
| 1901 | Crucial Instances (S) | |||
| 1902 | The Valley of Decision (S) | The Joy of Living (translation of a play) (S) | ||
| 1903 | Sanctuary (S) | |||
| 1904 | The Descent of Man and Other Stories (S) | Italian Villas and Their Gardens (C) | ||
| 1905 | The House of Mirth (S) | Italian Backgrounds (S) | ||
| 1906 | Madame de Treymes (S) | |||
| 1907 | The Fruit of the Tree (S) | |||
| 1908 | The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (S) | A Motor-Flight Through France (S) | ||
| 1909 | Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses (S) | |||
| 1910 | Tales of Men and Ghosts (S) | |||
| 1911 | Ethan Frome* (S) | |||
| 1912 | The Reef (A) | |||
| 1913 | The Custom of the Country (S) | |||
| 1914 | ||||
| 1915 | Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort (S) | |||
| 1916 | Xingu and Other Stories (S) | The Book of the Homeless (S) | ||
| 1917 | Summer (S) | |||
| 1918 | The Marne (S) | |||
| 1919 | French Ways and Their Meaning (A) | |||
| 1920 | The Age of Innocence (A) | In Morocco (travel) (S) | ||
| 1921 | ||||
| 1922 | The Glimpses of the Moon (A) | |||
| 1923 | A Son at the Front (S) | |||
| 1924 | Old New York: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year’s Day (A) | |||
| 1925 | The Mother’s Recompense (A) | The Writing of Fiction (essays) (S) | ||
| 1926 | Here and Beyond (A) | Twelve Poems (MS) | ||
| 1927 | Twilight Sleep (A) | |||
| 1928 | The Children (A) | |||
| 1929 | Hudson River Bracketed (A) | |||
| 1930 | Certain People (A) | |||
| 1932 | The Gods Arrive (A) | |||
| 1933 | Human Nature (A) | |||
| 1934 | A Backward Glance (memoir) (A) | |||
| 1936 | The World Over (A) | |||
| 1937 | Ghosts (A) | |||
| Posthumously published works | ||||
| 1938 | The Buccaneers, unfinished novel | |||
| 1938 | Eternal Passion in Poetry, ed. With Robert Norton and Gaillard Lapsley | |||
| 1968 | The Collected Short Stories, ed. R. W. B. Lewis | |||
| 1973 | The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton** | |||
| 1977 | Fast and Loose: A Novelette, ed. Viola Hopkins Winner | |||
| 1992 | The Cruise of the Vanadis (travel) | |||
| 1993 | Fast and Loose and The Buccaneers, ed. Viola Hopkins Winner | |||
- Benstock lists this as a novella, but it is often considered a novel.
- **This volume is the same as Ghosts except that it omits “A Bottle of Perrier” and adds “The Looking Glass”
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