The Portable Edith Wharton

Best known for her novels depicting the stifling conformity and ceremoniousness of the upper-class New York society into which she was born, Edith Wharton also wrote brilliantly in many genres: essays, travel pieces, memoirs, and a variety of short stories. This unique collection provides a fresh look at Wharton’s genius by including a generous sampling of her short stories, along with nonfiction, letters, excerpts from the novels The House of Mirth, The Reef, and The Age of Innocence, and Summer, reprinted in its entirety. Also included in this volume is an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin, who examines the life and literary accomplishments of Edith Wharton, a chronology, notes, and bibliography.

SHORT FICTION:
Souls Belated (1899)
The Muse’s Tragedy (1899)
Friends (1900)
The Choice (1908)
The Lady’s Maid’s Bell (1902)
The Other Two (1904)
The Hermit and the Wild Woman (1906)
His Father’s Son (1909)
Afterward (1910)
The Eyes (1910)
The Letters (1910)
Autres Temps… (1911)
Xingu (1911)
Coming Home (1915)
Writing a War Story (1919)

NOVELS:
Summer (1917)
from The House of Mirth [Chapters I & II] (1905)
from The Reef [Chapers XXIII – XXVI] (1912)
from The Age of Innocence [Chapters XXX & XXXI] (1920)

LETTERS: 1894-1917

NONFICTION:
from “A Midsummer Week’s Dream: August in Italy” (1902)
from “Paris to Poitiers” (1908)
“In Argonne” (1915)
from “In Lorraine and the Vosges” (1915)