02346cam a2200265 4500 1261920571 TxAuBib 000628s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00057596 9781883011932 alk. paper 1883011930 alk. paper (OCoLC)5694 DLC DLC C#P XDM OCLCQ NLGGC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG VVW UBC CIRBC TxAuBib Wharton, Edith. Short stories Selections. Collected stories, 1891-1910 / Edith Wharton. New York : Literary Classics of the United States, 2001. x, 928 p. ; 21 cm. Library of America ; 121 Includes bibliographical references (p. 924.) Mrs. Manstey's view -- The fulness of life -- The lamp of psyche -- The valley of childish things, and other emblems -- The muse's tragedy -- A journey -- The pelican -- Souls belated -- The twilight of the God -- A cup of cold water -- The touchstone -- The Duchess at prayer -- The angel at the grave -- The recovery -- The Rembrandt -- The moving finger -- Sanctuary -- The descent of man -- The mission of Jane -- The other two -- The reckoning -- Expiation -- The lady's maid's bell -- The house of the dead hand -- The introducers -- The hermit and the wild woman -- The last asset -- The pretext -- The pot-boiler -- The best man -- His father's son -- The daunt Diana -- The debt -- Full circle -- The legend -- The eyes -- Afterward -- The letters. ""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.""--BOOK JACKET. Short stories. Library of America ; 121.