The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton

by Edith Wharton (Editor), Anita Brookner (Introduction)

Overview

Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive collection of her short fiction shows her to be a master of all its varieties.

"Wharton's stories . . . owe their enduring power to portray the emotional consequences of life in a rarefied world." -- New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786711123
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	12/16/2002
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	640
Sales rank:	451,719
Product dimensions:	1.42(w) x 6.00(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. She drew upon her insider's knowledge of New York's upper class to realistically portray their lives and morals in the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921.

Anita Brookner is the Booker Prize-winning author of The Hotel du Lac. She lives in England.

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	The Pelican	1
	The Other Two	16
	The Mission of Jane	32
	The Reckoning	47
	The Last Asset	64
	The Letters	90
	Autres Temps...	120
	The Long Run	144
	After Holbein	168
	Atrophy	187
	Pomegranate Seed	197
	Her Son	222
	Charm Incorporated	271
	All Souls'	291
	The Lamp of Psyche	311
	A Journey	330
	The Line of Least Resistance	341
	The Moving Finger	355
	Expiation	370
	Les Metteurs en Scene	393
	Full Circle	409
	The Daunt Diana	431
	Afterward	444
	The Bolted Door	474
	The Temperate Zone	513
	Diagnosis	541
	The Day of the Funeral	562
	Confession	583
	Afterword	621
	List of Sources	625