Title: The selected short stories of Edith Wharton /
Authors: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937; Lewis, R. W. B.
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Manners and customs Fiction.
Abstract: In The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton, R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, has culled twenty-one of her best stories, here available in a single volume for the first time.
Contents: A journey -- The pelican -- Souls belated -- The descent of man -- The mission of Jane -- The other two -- The dilettante -- The lady's maid's bell -- The legend -- The eyes -- Xingu -- Autres temps ... -- Kerfol -- The long run -- A bottle of Perrier -- After Holbein -- Mr. Jones -- Pomegranate seed -- Roman fever -- Duration -- All Souls'.