Crucial Instances (Annotated)

by Edith Wharton

Overview

• This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Edith Wharton, the feminism of a Pulitzer Prize winner

“Crucial Instances” is Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection, the second collection of short fiction of her career.

The collection consists of six entertaining works of short fiction, and one dialogue: "The Duchess at Prayer," "The Angel at the Grave," "The Recovery," "Copy: A Dialogue," "The Rembrandt," "The Moving Finger," and "The Confessional."

In “Crucial Instances” Wharton shows her wide range of talents. It is a great collection of stories, from those with a touch of horror, to those that make the reader feel good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791221356786
Publisher:	ePembaBooks
Publication date:	02/09/2023
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe