This is where Wharton wrote two of her best-loved books, Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth. But she and Teddy were not destined to live happily ever after. Teddy, who was mentally ill and ...

Book: ‘The House of Mirth’ “The Age of Innocence” is one of my favorite books, so I decided to read another by Edith Wharton in preparation for HBO’s “The Gilded Age.” ...

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 ...

My belief is that the book would appear in an entirely new light. and thus reviewed his wish to criticise would be nulled by his more thorough enjoyment of such word painting as makes her literary ...

The House of Mirth, Terence Davies, Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Elizabeth McGovern, Jodhi May MORE IN THE ARCHIVES ...

We re-post below a review of The House of Mirth , directed by Terence Davies, based on the novel by American author Edith Wharton, which has just opened in the US. The comment by David Walsh ...

iW: Having read “House of Mirth” before I saw your film, I have no idea how I would have reacted to it without all the background information Edith Wharton supplied to her characters.