Crucial Instances
Crucial Instances is a 1901 short story collection by Edith Wharton.
Stories
The book contains a collection of seven stories:
- "The Duchess at Prayer"
- "The Angel at the Grave"
- "The Recovery"
- "Copy: A Dialogue"
- "The Rembrandt"
- "The Moving Finger"
- "The Confessional"
The story The Duchess at Prayer is a rewriting of Honoré de Balzac's short story La Grande Bretèche (1831).[1]
References
- ^ Edith Wharton and “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Eleanor Dwight, published in Poe and Our Times: Influences and Affinities, Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1986, pp. 49-57.
External links
- Crucial Instances at Faded Page (Canada)
- The full text of Crucial Instances at Project Gutenberg
- Read Crucial Instances over email at DailyReader.net
- Google books information on Crucial Instances at Google Books
- Crucial Instances public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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Edith Wharton
- The House of Mirth (1905)
- The Reef (1912)
- The Custom of the Country (1913)
- Summer (1917)
- The Age of Innocence (1920)
- The Glimpses of the Moon (1922)
- Twilight Sleep (1927)
- The Buccaneers (1938)
and novelette
- The Touchstone (1900)
- Ethan Frome (1911)
- Bunner Sisters (1916)
- Old New York (1924)
collections
- The Greater Inclination (1899)
- Crucial Instances (1901)
- The Decoration of Houses (1897)
- Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1915)
- The Book of the Homeless (1916)
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