Stranded in Ethan Frome's house during a snow storm, the narrator of Edith Wharton's novel pieces together the story of his host's broken dreams. A love-triangle between Ethan, his wife Zeena, and her cousin Mattie reached a tragic crisis years before, and Ethan has been living with the consequences ever since. Set in the bleak New England town of Starkfield, Wharton's tale of disappointment and endurance is a compelling study.

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Set in turn-of-the-century New York, Edith Wharton's classic novel "The Age of Innocence" reveals a society governed by the dictates of taste and form, manners and morals, and intricate social ceremonies. Newland Archer, soon to marry the lovely May Welland, is a man torn between his respect for tradition and family and his attraction to May's strongly independent cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska. Plagued by the desire to live in a world where two people can love each other free from condemnation and judgment by the group, Newland views the artful delicacy of the world he lives in as a...

THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON is a witty and entertaining examination of the moral deficiencies of the creed of materialism.