Collected stories, 1891-1910

by Edith Wharton

Hardcover, 2001

Status

Available

Publication

New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, c2001.

Description

"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."--Jacket.

Language

Local notes

Library of America

Barcode

11879

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