Edith Wharton | |
| Born |
1862
|
|---|---|
| Died |
1937 (aged 75)
|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Realism, Social Commentary |
| Nationality | American |
| Gender | Female |
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist known for her novels depicting upper-class society, including “The Age of Innocence” (Pulitzer Prize winner).
Short Stories written by Edith Wharton
A Coward 1895 - SOCIETY CALLED HIM HANDSOME SIGNOLES. HIS NAME was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles. An orphan, and possessed of an adequate income,… ... Read more
A Cup of Cold Water 1895 - It was three o'clock in the morning, and the cotillion was at its height, when Woburn left the over-heated splendor… ... Read more
A Journey 1889 - As she lay in her berth, staring at the shadows overhead, the rush of the wheels was in her brain,… ... Read more
A Venetian Night’s Entertainment 1895 - This is the story that, in the dining-room of the old Beacon Street house (now the Aldebaran Club), Judge Anthony… ... Read more
Afterward 1910 - I "Oh, there is one, of course, but you'll never know it." The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier… ... Read more
April Showers 1895 - "BUT Guy's heart slept under the violets on Muriel's grave." It was a beautiful ending; Theodora had seen girls cry… ... Read more
Crucial Instances 1895 - THE DUCHESS AT PRAYER Have you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house, that motionless mask,… ... Read more
Expiation 1895 - I. "I CAN never," said Mrs. Fetherel, "hear the bell ring without a shudder." Her unruffled aspect--she was the kind… ... Read more
In Trust 1895 - I IN the good days, just after we all left college, Ned Halidon and I used to listen, laughing and… ... Read more
Kerfol 1895 - I "You ought to buy it," said my host; "it's just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And… ... Read more
Mrs. Manstey’s View 1895 - The view from Mrs. Manstey's window was not a striking one, but to her at least it was full of… ... Read more
Souls Belated 1895 - I Their railway carriage had been full when the train left Bologna; but at the first station beyond Milan their… ... Read more
The Best Man 1895 - I DUSK had fallen, and the circle of light shed by the lamp of Governor Mornway's writing-table just rescued from… ... Read more
The Bolted Door 1895 - I Hubert Granice, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on… ... Read more
The Choice 1895 - I Stilling, that night after dinner, had surpassed himself. He always did, Wrayford reflected, when the small fry from Highfield… ... Read more
The Descent of Man 1895 - I When Professor Linyard came back from his holiday in the Maine woods the air of rejuvenation he brought with… ... Read more
The Dilettante 1895 - It was on an impulse hardly needing the arguments he found himself advancing in its favor, that Thursdale, on his… ... Read more
The Fullness Of Life 1895 - I For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one… ... Read more
The House Of The Dead Hand 1895 - I "Above all," the letter ended, "don't leave Siena without seeing Doctor Lombard's Leonardo. Lombard is a queer old Englishman,… ... Read more
The Lady’s Maid’s Bell 1895 - I IT was the autumn after I had the typhoid. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came… ... Read more
The Letters 1895 - Just before the letter was brought to me that evening I was watching the red November sunset from the library… ... Read more
The Mission of Jane 1895 - I LETHBURY, surveying his wife across the dinner table, found his transient conjugal glance arrested by an indefinable change in… ... Read more
The Muse’s Tragedy 1895 - Danyers afterwards liked to fancy that he had recognized Mrs. Anerton at once; but that, of course, was absurd, since… ... Read more
The Other Two 1895 - I Waythorn, on the drawing-room hearth, waited for his wife to come down to dinner. It was their first night… ... Read more
The Pelican 1895 - She was very pretty when I first knew her, with the sweet straight nose and short upper lip of the… ... Read more
The Portrait 1895 - "Bless the happy art!" ejaculated Mrs. Morton, wiping the moisture from her eyes. "Could anything be more perfect than that… ... Read more
The Pot-Boiler 1895 - I The studio faced north, looking out over a dismal reach of roofs and chimneys, and rusty fire-escapes hung with… ... Read more
The Pretext 1895 - I MRS. RANSOM, when the front door had closed on her visitor, passed with a spring from the drawing-room to… ... Read more
The Quicksand 1895 - I AS Mrs. Quentin's victoria, driving homeward, turned from the Park into Fifth Avenue, she divined her son's tall figure… ... Read more
The Reckoning 1895 - I "The marriage law of the new dispensation will be: THOU SHALT NOT BE UNFAITHFUL -- TO THYSELF." A discreet… ... Read more
The Triumph of Night 1914 - I It was clear that the sleigh from Weymore had not come; and the shivering young traveller from Boston, who… ... Read more
The Twilight of the God 1895 - I A Newport drawing-room. Tapestries, flowers, bric-a-brac. Through the windows, a geranium-edged lawn, the cliffs and the sea. Isabel Warland… ... Read more
The Verdict 1895 - I had always thought Jack Gisburn rather a cheap genius -- though a good fellow enough -- so it was… ... Read more
Xingu 1895 - Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone.… ... Read more
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