The books

The Quiet Fortune is a three-volume series about building wealth without noise. Each volume stands alone; together they make one path. There is also a complete omnibus with all three in a single book.

Everything here is financial education, not financial advice. The books explain how money works so you can make your own decisions — they do not tell you what to buy.

There is no shop on this site. Everything is sold through Amazon — the three volumes in paperback and Kindle, the complete trilogy in paperback. Pick your country's store below and the button takes you straight there.

Cover of The Quiet Fortune: The Complete Trilogy by Edmund Warde

The Quiet Fortune: The Complete Trilogy

A Plain-English Guide to Building, Keeping, and Finally Enjoying Your Money

All three volumes in a single edition. Three volumes, one person: from the first nervous hundred dollars to the last careful signature. The beginning, the swimming, and the far shore, as one continuous path.

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Cover of The Quiet Fortune, Volume I by Edmund Warde

The Quiet Fortune, Volume I

A Beginner's Guide to Investing, Compound Growth, and Building Wealth Slowly

Volume I is written for someone standing at the edge of the water, afraid to get in — someone who has decided, quietly, that money is a room they were never handed the key to. It starts at the beginning and assumes nothing.

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Cover of The Quiet Fortune, Volume II by Edmund Warde

The Quiet Fortune, Volume II

How to Keep the Wealth You've Started Building

Volume II is written for someone already in the water and swimming: a mortgage, a partner who changes the subject whenever the joint account comes up, a child, a raise that somehow made things tighter, a parent who is beginning to need help.

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Cover of The Quiet Fortune, Volume III by Edmund Warde

The Quiet Fortune, Volume III

A Plain-English Guide to Retirement Spending, Giving, and Finally Enjoying What You Built

Volume III is written for someone standing on the far shore, looking back — deciding when to stop working, what to spend, what to give away while they are still here to watch it land, and how to write the last few instructions well.

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Which one should I read first?

If you are starting from the beginning, start with Volume I. If you already save and invest and want the harder middle-of-life questions, Volume II. If the question is how to stop working, what to spend, and what to give away, Volume III. If you would rather have it all at once, the omnibus.

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All four titles are also collected on the Edmund Warde Amazon author page.