Collected stories, 1891-1910
By: Edith Wharton.
Series: Library of America ;
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam; Library of America, The
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 928
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 924-.