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Roman Fever

By Edith Wharton
Penguin Classics
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
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Roman Fever by Edith Wharton presents tales of betrayal, rivalry, and loss from the great chronicler of New York's Gilded Age, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. In these elegant and devastating tales of deception, desire, and social intrigue, Wharton exposes... Read More
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Roman Fever by Edith Wharton presents tales of betrayal, rivalry, and loss from the great chronicler of New York's Gilded Age, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

In these elegant and devastating tales of deception, desire, and social intrigue, Wharton exposes the brittle veneer of civility that masks human ambition and longing.

From the sunlit terraces of Rome to the drawing rooms of New York, Wharton's characters navigate a world bound by class and convention, yet charged with emotional undercurrents they barely understand. In Roman Fever, two middle-aged women confront the unspoken rivalries that have shadowed their friendship for decades; in Mrs. Manstey's View, a lonely widow's cherished glimpse of life beyond her window becomes the stage for a quiet tragedy; and in After Holbein, the elaborate pretences of two ageing New Yorkers reveal the haunting persistence of vanity and illusion.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241820247

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 119.0mm

Height: 168.0mm

Weight: 224g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.

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