Lily Bart, a socialite in turn of the century New York who learns the precariousness of her position when her beauty starts attracting unwelcome interest and jealousy.

Biography of American author Edith Wharton discussing her life and writing career as well as the many-faceted woman behind the writer.

"In this novel by the author of Three Lives, a blue blood New York lawyer recounts his life through stories of people he has encountered along the way. Linking three generations of a Wall Street law firm, The Education of Oscar Fairfax provides a revealing portrait of the American upper classes throughout the twentieth century. The story opens in 1908, as St. Luke's Cathedral rises stone by stone on lower Broadway, and young Oscar learns a lesson...

Against the rules of Gilded Age society, Edith Wharton falls in love with a dashing, younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and their scandalous affair threatens everything in her life, especially her ties to Anna Bahlmann, her governess turned literary secretary, and the one person most deeply involved in her writing.