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The collected stories of Edith Wharton / selected and introduced by Anita Brookner.
LIBRA - Special PS3545.H16 A6 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 625 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third Carroll and Graf trade paperback edition.
- Other Title:
- Edith Wharton
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; [Emeryville, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2002.
- Summary:
- A consummate novelist, the author of the masterly The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton was also an equally accomplished and prolific short story writer. From 1899, when she published her first collection of stories under the title The Greater Inclination, to 1937, the year of her last, Wharton's short fiction consistently demonstrated not only the elegance and wit of her style but also the intelligence of her insight into the lives of women and men striving to reconcile the desires of the heart with the demands of society. Brilliantly observed, acutely written, deeply felt, the stories in this collection offer a stunning portrait of a socially intricate world and a gilded age.
- Contents:
- Introduction /Anita Brookner
- The Pelican
- The Other Two
- The Mission of Jane
- The Reckoning
- The Last Asset
- The Letters
- Autres Temps ...
- The Long Run
- After Holbein
- Atrophy
- Pomegranate Seed
- Her Son
- Charm Incorporated
- All Souls'
- The Lamp of Psyche
- A Journey
- The Line of Least Resistance
- The Moving Finger
- Expiation
- Les Metteurs en Scene
- Full Circle
- The Daunt Diana
- Afterward
- The Bolted Door
- The Temperate Zone
- Diagnosis
- The Day of the Funeral
- Confession
- Afterword /Anita Brookner.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 625).
- ISBN:
- 9780786711123
- 0786711124
- OCLC:
- 51632272
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