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Four best-selling novels that capture World War I and the Jazz Age through the eyes of one of America's greatest writers.After winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton published four novels that brought her signature blend of dramatic irony and penetrating social satire to bear on what she called "the growing sense of waste and loss wrought by those irreparable years" of World War I. The Library of America now...

The four novels in this Library of America volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy. In all of them her strong and autobiographical impulse is disciplined by her writer's craft and her unfailing regard for her audience.The House of Mirth (1905), Wharton's tenth book and her first novel of contemporary life, was an imm...