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24 de may. de 2024 · Learn More. Wharton’s short stories, which appeared in numerous collections, among them Xingu and Other Stories (1916), demonstrate her gifts for social satire and comedy, as do the four novelettes collected in Old New York (1924).
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Short Stories. Works by Edith Wharton (1862-1937) An Edith Wharton Chronology (includes more exact dates of publication) Edith Wharton's stories with original dates of publication . For information on films made from Edith Wharton's works, go to the Edith Wharton Filmography.
Among her numerous novels, short stories, and travel writings are The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and the Pulitzer prize-winning Age of Innocence. In this volume Wharton explores the anguish and hypocrisy hanging over the lives of divorced women in The Other Two, Souls Belated, Autres Temps and The Last Asset.
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- A Bottle of Perrier | 8,950 Words
- Bunner Sisters | 30,500 Words
- A Journey | 4,400 Words
- The Muse’s Tragedy | 5,800 Words
- The Pelican | 7,450 Words
- The Rembrandt | 6,000 Words
- Roman Fever | 5,000 Words
- The Verdict | 3,800 Words
Medford, from the American School of Archaeology at Athens, goes to visit his friend, Henry, an amateur archaeologist living in the desert. When he arrives, Henry isn’t home. The servant, Gosling, says he was invited to some unexplored ruins. Medford waits for his friend’s return. “A Bottle of Perrier”
Two middle-aged sisters, Ann Eliza and Evelina, run a small shop and live modestly. They’re proud of their little shop and it keeps them solvent. They start having a few dealings with a local clock seller, which changes their usual routine. I know, this one is too long to be called a short story. I’ve included it because it could be read in one sit...
A married couple are taking a train back home to New York. They have been away for the husband’s health, but he hasn’t improved. His wife still loves him, but she feels constrained by the situation. She wants her old life back. (Summary) Read “A Journey”
Danyers is a young man who greatly admires the work of the late poet Vincent Rendle, and Rendle’s muse, Mary Anerton. A social acquaintance, Mrs. Memorall, knows Mary and passes along an essay that Danyers wrote. Eventually, they meet to discuss Rendle’s work. This story can be read in the preview of The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton.
Mrs. Amyot, a widow, gives lectures to support herself and her child. She comes from a family of intellectuals, though isn’t one herself. Her lectures are of dubious quality—she has a huge store of inaccurate information—and her audience is more interested in them as social events. The narrator recounts his interactions with her over the years and ...
The narrator is persuaded by his cousin Eleanor to visit a distressed gentlewoman and appraise a painting, which, if valuable, could ease her difficulties. He is able to determine the painting’s value, but he struggles to tell the lady directly. “The Rembrandt”
While on vacation together in Rome, two middle-aged women, Mrs. Slade and Mrs. Ansley, talk about their past and their daughters. They had met in Rome when they were younger than their daughters are now. “Roman Fever”
At the height of his career as a painter, Jack Gisburn married a rich widow, moved to the Riviera and quit painting. The women whom he painted mourned his sudden departure—men and his fellow artists less so. On a trip to the Riviera three years later, it occurs to the narrator that he could check in on Gisburn and perhaps find out what happened. Re...
In addition to novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories. She was also a garden designer , an interior designer , and a taste-maker of her time. She wrote several design books, including her first major published work, The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-authored by Ogden Codman .
24 de oct. de 2021 · In addition to longer works, including “The House of Mirth” and “Ethan Frome,” she published some eighty-five short stories, many of them spectral. Wharton’s ghost tales have been ...
Edith Newbold Jones. Pen Name: Born: January 24, 1862. Died: August 11, 1937. The novelist known as Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was born as Edith Newbold Jones. The Joneses were a wealthy New York family and one of Wharton's biographers claims that the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" is in reference to her father's family. As part of ...
