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The collected short stories of Edith Wharton / edited and with an introd. by R.W.B. Lewis.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Scribner, 1968.Description: 2 volumes ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.5/2
LOC classification:
  • PS3545.H16 A15 1968
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
v. 1. Introduction -- from The writing of fiction (1925) : Telling a short story -- Early uncollected stories (1891-1896) : Mrs. Manstey's view ; The fullness of life ; That good may come ; The lamp of psyche -- The valley of childish things, and other emblems -- The greater inclination (1899) : The muse's tragedy ; A journey ; The pelican ; Souls belated ; A coward ; The twilight of the god ; A cup of cold water ; The portrait -- Early uncollected stories (1900) : April showers ; Friends ; The line of least resistance -- Crucial instances (1901) : The duchess at prayer ; The angel at the grave ; The recovery ; Copy ; The Rembrandt ; The moving finger ; The confessional -- The descent of man (1904) : The descent of man ; The mission of Jane ; The other two ; The quicksand ; The dilettante ; The reckoning ; Expiation ; The lady's maid's bell ; A Venetian night's entertainment -- Uncollected stories (1904-1908) : The letter ; The house of the dead hand ; The introducers ; Les metteurs en Scène -- The hermit and the wild woman (1908) : The hermit and the wild woman ; The last asset ; In trust.
The pretext ; The verdict ; The potboiler ; The best man -- v.2. Tales of men and ghosts (1910) : 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 (1916) : Xingu ; Coming home ; Autres temps ... ; Kerfol ; The long run ; The triumph of night ; The choice -- Uncollected story (1919) : Writing a war story -- Here and beyond (1926) : Miss Mary Pask ; The young gentlemen ; Bewitched ; The seed of the faith ; The temperate zone ; Velvet ear pads -- Certain people (1930) : Atrophy ; A bottle of Perrier ; After Holbein ; Dieu d'amour ; The refugees ; Mr. Jones -- Human nature (1933) : Her son ; The day of the funeral ; A glimpse ; Joy in the house ; Diagnosis -- The world over (1936) : Charm incorporated ; Pomegranate seed ; Permanent wave ; Confession ; Roman fever ; The looking glass ; Duration -- from Ghosts (1937) : Preface ; All souls'.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 3545 .H16 A15 1968 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 130203

Includes index.

v. 1. Introduction -- from The writing of fiction (1925) : Telling a short story -- Early uncollected stories (1891-1896) : Mrs. Manstey's view ; The fullness of life ; That good may come ; The lamp of psyche -- The valley of childish things, and other emblems -- The greater inclination (1899) : The muse's tragedy ; A journey ; The pelican ; Souls belated ; A coward ; The twilight of the god ; A cup of cold water ; The portrait -- Early uncollected stories (1900) : April showers ; Friends ; The line of least resistance -- Crucial instances (1901) : The duchess at prayer ; The angel at the grave ; The recovery ; Copy ; The Rembrandt ; The moving finger ; The confessional -- The descent of man (1904) : The descent of man ; The mission of Jane ; The other two ; The quicksand ; The dilettante ; The reckoning ; Expiation ; The lady's maid's bell ; A Venetian night's entertainment -- Uncollected stories (1904-1908) : The letter ; The house of the dead hand ; The introducers ; Les metteurs en Scène -- The hermit and the wild woman (1908) : The hermit and the wild woman ; The last asset ; In trust.

The pretext ; The verdict ; The potboiler ; The best man -- v.2. Tales of men and ghosts (1910) : 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 (1916) : Xingu ; Coming home ; Autres temps ... ; Kerfol ; The long run ; The triumph of night ; The choice -- Uncollected story (1919) : Writing a war story -- Here and beyond (1926) : Miss Mary Pask ; The young gentlemen ; Bewitched ; The seed of the faith ; The temperate zone ; Velvet ear pads -- Certain people (1930) : Atrophy ; A bottle of Perrier ; After Holbein ; Dieu d'amour ; The refugees ; Mr. Jones -- Human nature (1933) : Her son ; The day of the funeral ; A glimpse ; Joy in the house ; Diagnosis -- The world over (1936) : Charm incorporated ; Pomegranate seed ; Permanent wave ; Confession ; Roman fever ; The looking glass ; Duration -- from Ghosts (1937) : Preface ; All souls'.

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