Edith Wharton’s 1905 “The House of Mirth,” ostensibly a novel about early-20th century New York aristocracy, is really an outer-space story, and intuitively at least, director Terence Davies seems to ...

“House of Mirth,” an original musical by composer, conductor and Timberline High School football coach Terry Shaw, opens Saturday. Like the 1905 Edith Wharton novel on which it’s based, “Mirth” is ...

PASTICHENYC and The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, will present a special event which includes the complete series of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth Song Cycle, written and directed by Emily King ...

In my early 20s, I "met" author Edith Wharton in a literature class while I was living in Paris and attending the Sorbonne. Right away, I felt I had a friend. I had recently spent a year in New ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. Wharton was an unlikely writer: her upbringing was in the ...

EASTHAMPTON — People reading comic books; dangerous-looking women; men named Dick. Stacy Waldman collects them all, and more, often with a particular client in mind. She buys and sells vintage ...