Collected Stories, 1911-1937
by Edith Wharton
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Wharton's sharp-eyed, subtle, and penetrating stories portray lives lived under the stultifying weight of upper-class conventions.
Editions of Collected Stories, 1911-1937
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Penguin USA |
Date 2001 |
Price $19.97 |
 New |
Publisher Notes
Contains twenty-nine short stories exploring the author's themes of relations between the sexes, satire of social class, character, and morality.
Media Reviews
"Wharton attempted, and succeeded in, a dazzling variety of styles, from the fantastic to the realistic, from the satiric to the sentimental. Here are antiquarian themes--ghosts, fables, historical fantasies, and tales of crazed connoisseurs in love with the past. But here are also a number of incisive dissections of contemporary American and European customs. Wharton brought a new acuity to the debate between manners and morals. And she knew how to shape a story."
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