Collected stories, 1891-1910 / Edith Wharton. [print]

By:

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Library of America ; 121.Publication details: New York: Literary Classics of the United States: (c)2001.; Distributed by Penguin Books, (c)2001.Description: x, 928 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781883011932

Uniform titles:

Short stories. Selections

Subject(s):

Short stories

LOC classification:

PS3545
PS3545.W553.C655 2001

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

The fulness of life -- The lamp of psyche -- The valley of childish things, and other emblems -- The muse's tragedy -- A journey -- The pelican -- Souls belated -- The twilight of the God -- A cup of cold water -- The touchstone -- The Duchess at prayer -- The angel at the grave -- The recovery -- The Rembrandt -- The moving finger -- Sanctuary -- The descent of man -- The mission of Jane -- The other two -- The reckoning -- Expiation -- The lady's maid's bell -- The house of the dead hand -- The introducers -- The hermit and the wild woman -- The last asset -- The pretext -- The pot-boiler -- The best man -- His father's son -- The daunt Diana -- The debt -- Full circle -- The legend -- The eyes -- Afterward -- The letters.

Review: "With this volume (a companion to Collected Stories 1911-1937), The Library of America presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than eighty stories she published over the course of her career. Here, in settings familiar and exotic, are all of Wharton's characteristic qualities and themes: her candid exploration of relations between the sexes; her satire, sometimes gentle, sometimes despairing, of social class and its distinctions; her keen-eyed observation of the minutiae of character; her unflinching recognition of the power of conventional morality and the limits of passion, tempered by her delightful sense of play."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	PS3545.H16.A6 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001479076

Mrs. Manstey's view -- The fulness of life -- The lamp of psyche -- The valley of childish things, and other emblems -- The muse's tragedy -- A journey -- The pelican -- Souls belated -- The twilight of the God -- A cup of cold water -- The touchstone -- The Duchess at prayer -- The angel at the grave -- The recovery -- The Rembrandt -- The moving finger -- Sanctuary -- The descent of man -- The mission of Jane -- The other two -- The reckoning -- Expiation -- The lady's maid's bell -- The house of the dead hand -- The introducers -- The hermit and the wild woman -- The last asset -- The pretext -- The pot-boiler -- The best man -- His father's son -- The daunt Diana -- The debt -- Full circle -- The legend -- The eyes -- Afterward -- The letters.

"With this volume (a companion to Collected Stories 1911-1937), The Library of America presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than eighty stories she published over the course of her career. Here, in settings familiar and exotic, are all of Wharton's characteristic qualities and themes: her candid exploration of relations between the sexes; her satire, sometimes gentle, sometimes despairing, of social class and its distinctions; her keen-eyed observation of the minutiae of character; her unflinching recognition of the power of conventional morality and the limits of passion, tempered by her delightful sense of play."--BOOK JACKET.

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