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
AC = Appleton-Century
C = Century
MS = Medici Society, London
S = Charles Scribner's Sons

 

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