Wharton's debut novel, the Valley of Decision, follows Odo Valsecca, a young man in northern Italy in the late 1700s. As the Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton notes, it "is one of her most ...

June 17, 2025 • The new books publishing this week may get quite heavy, laden as they are with family tragedy, psychopathy and heartbreak — but at least they are fiction. June 11, 2025 ...