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Short Stories

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  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, volume 1. (Now available at the Wharton Society site, these texts can be searched for certain words or phrases.)
  • Text files from Project Gutenberg. Includes
  • "Kerfol"
  • "Mrs. Manstey's View" "Mrs. Manstey's View" (MOA)
  • "The Bolted Door"
  • "The Dilettante"
  • "The House of the Dead Hand"
  • and  poems.
  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, volume 2. (Now available at the Wharton Society site, these texts can be searched for certain words or phrases.)Text files from Project Gutenberg. Includes
  • "Afterward"
  • "The Fulness of Life" "The Fulness of Life" (MOA)
  • "A Venetian Night's Entertainment"
  • "Xingu"
  • "The Verdict"
  • Other Stories

    "The Lamp of Psyche" (MOA)
    "That Good May Come" (MOA) (Virginia)

  • "The Reckoning," and poems.
  • The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems (1896)
  • The Greater Inclination (1899) (1916 edition; Page images at Google Books)

    Crucial Instances (1901) (Page images at Google Books)

    The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (1904)

    "The Introducers" Ainslee's (January 1906)

    The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908). Stories: 

     

    Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910)

    The Greater Inclination and The Touchstone (1914 edition) (Google Books)

    Xingu and Other Stories (1916) (Page Images at Google Books)

    "Writing a War Story" (1919)

    "The Refugees" (1919)

    Here and Beyond (1926)

  • Miss Mary Pask
  • The Young Gentlemen
  • Bewitched
  • "The Seed of the Faith" (Scribner's Magazine, 1919)
  • The Temperate Zone
  • Velvet Ear Pads
  • Certain People (1930)(Readers outside the US can find links to this work at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/nonus.html)
  • Atrophy
  • A Bottle of Perrier
  • After Holbein
  • Dieu d'Amour
  • The Refugees
  • Mr. Jones
  • Human Nature (1933)

    • Her Son
    • The Day of the Funeral
    • A Glimpse
    • Joy in the House
    • Diagnosis

    The World Over (1936)

    • Charm Incorporated
    • Pomegranate Seed
    • Permanent Wave
    • Confession
    • Roman Fever
    • The Looking Glass
    • Duration
    Ghosts (1937)