| Description |
x, 848 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 122 |
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Library of America ; 122.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Xinqu -- Coming home -- Autres temps -- Kerfol -- The long run -- The triumph of night -- Bunner sisters -- Writing a war story -- The marne -- Miss Mary Pask -- The young gentlemen -- Bewitched -- The seed of the faith -- Velvet ear-pads -- Atrophy -- A bottle of Perrier -- After Holbein -- Mr. Jones -- Her son -- The day of the funeral -- A glimpse -- Joy in the house -- Charm incorporated -- Pomegranate seed -- Confession -- Roman fever -- The looking-glass -- Duration -- All souls'. |
| Summary |
"With this volume (a companion to Collected Stories 1891-1910), 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 astonishing 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. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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Short stories, American.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Verhalen (teksten) (NL-LeOCL)112192645
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Short stories. Selections. Collected stories, 1911-1937. New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, ©2001 (OCoLC)647568517 |
| ISBN |
1883011949 (alk. paper) |
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9781883011949 (alk. paper) |
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