About the Book

This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''The Children'' is a comic novel about the seven Wheater children and their association with a bachelor that leads to several misadventures.

About the Author

Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton''s first poems were published in Scribner''s Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her many short stories, titled ''Mrs. Manstey''s View''. Over the next four decades, they - along with other well-established American publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Harper''s and Lippincott''s - regularly published her work.