Complete Stories
Edith Wharton
Description of the book
This volume contains the complete stories of Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
CONTENTS:
The Greater Inclination
The Muse’s Tragedy
A Journey
The Pelican
Souls Belated
A Coward
The Twilight of the God
A Cup of Cold Water
The Portrait
Crucial Instances
The Duchess at Prayer
The Angel at the Grave
The Recovery
“Copy”
The Rembrandt
The Moving Finger
The Confessional
The Descent of Man, and other stories
Dedication
The Descent of Man
The Mission of Jane
The Other Two
The Quicksand
The Dilettante
The Reckoning
Expiation
The Lady’s Maid’s Be~ll~
A Venetian Night’s Entertainment
The Letter
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other stories
The Hermit and the Wild Woman
The Last Asset
In Trust
The Pretext
The Verdict
The Pot-Boiler
The Best Man
Tales of Men and Ghosts
The Bolted Door
His Father’s Son
The Daunt Diana
The Debt
Full Circle
The Legend
The Eyes
The Blond Beast
Afterward
The Letters
Xingu, and other Stories
Xingu
Coming Home
Autres Temps …
Kerfo~l~
The Long Run
The Triumph of Night
The Choice
Bunner Sisters
Here and Beyond
Miss Mary Pask
The Young Gentlemen
Bewitched
The Seed of the Faith
The Temperate Zone
Velvet Ear-Pads
Certain People
Dedication
Atrophy
A Bottle of Perrier
After Holbein
Dieu d’Amour
The Refugees
Mr Jones
Human Nature
Dedication
Her Son
The Day of the Funeral
A Glimpse
Joy in the House
Diagnosis
The World Over
Charm Incorporated
Pomegranate Seed
Permanent Wave
Confession
Roman Fever
The Looking-Glass
Duration
Uncollected Stories
Mrs Manstey’s View
The Fulness of Life
The Lamp of Psyche
That Good May Come
The Valley of Childish Things and Other Emblems
April Showers
Line of Least Resistance
The House of the Dead Hand
The Introducers
Les Metteurs en Scène
Writing a War Story
All Souls’
