The Fruit of the Tree (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Edith Wharton

In its 1907 review, the New York Times described The Fruit of the Tree as a “diamond in a heap of rubble.” In Edith Wharton’s third novel she looks at the working class and its problems, the conflict between capital and labor and, characteristically, the question of moral responsibility.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411436183

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having grown up in an upper-class, tightly controlled society known as “Old New York” at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage, Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of that society’s fiercest critics as well as one of America’s greatest writers. The author of more than 40 books in 40 years, Wharton’s oeuvre includes classic works of American literature such as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, as well as authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel.