Edith Wharton 
Complete Stories 
Edith Wharton

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’