The Fruit of the Tree

by Edith Wharton · 1907

A mill manager's reforming ideals collide with love, money, and a fatal act of mercy. Wharton's novel of industry and conscience.

Books mentioned in The Fruit of the Tree (2)

• History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne by William Edward Hartpole Lecky: “a few stray well-worn volumes: Lecky's European Morals, Carlyle's translation of Wilhelm Meister, Seneca, Epictetus”
• Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Lecky's European Morals, Carlyle's translation of Wilhelm Meister, Seneca, Epictetus, a German grammar, a pocket Bacon.”