Coming Home

A return that is never simple, where home is both a place and a reckoning.

In Coming Home, Edith Wharton explores themes of displacement, identity, and the shifting meanings of belonging within the refined yet restrictive world of early twentieth-century society. With her characteristic precision and psychological insight, Wharton examines how return often reveals change rather than restoration.

The narrative follows individuals who come back to familiar settings after periods of absence, only to discover that the spaces and relationships they once knew have been altered by time, circumstance, and unspoken shifts in social expectation. What once seemed stable now carries subtle dissonance, as memory and present reality fail to align. Within this tension, questions of personal freedom, duty, and emotional truth emerge, shaping the characters’ attempts to reconcile who they were with who they have become.

Wharton’s restrained and incisive style renders these transformations with quiet force, revealing the emotional undercurrents beneath social formality. Coming Home stands as a reflection on return as transformation, where familiarity itself becomes a source of revelation.

This Carlini Classics edition presents the complete, unabridged text in a beautifully designed format made to last.

• A nuanced exploration of return, identity, and belonging
• A psychological study of change within social expectation
• A timeless reflection on memory, place, and self-understanding

Available in multiple formats:

• Paperback & Hardcover: Beautifully designed print editions presenting the complete, unabridged text made to last.

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• Audiobook: Professionally narrated, complete and unabridged, available on all major audiobook platforms.

Elegantly produced and enduring in form, this edition preserves Wharton’s subtle vision in a volume designed for lasting contemplation.

About the author

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer, renowned for her sharp social commentary and penetrating exploration of human relationships. Best known for classics like The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, she captured the constraints and complexities of Gilded Age society with wit, elegance, and psychological depth. A trailblazer in literature, Wharton remains one of the most celebrated voices in American fiction.