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Cousin Phillis
by Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellCousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was published in four parts, though a fifth and sixth part were planned. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence. Most criti..
Dark Night's Work
by Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellA Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking. The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his d..
Afterward
by Edith Wharton"Afterward" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the 1910 edition of The Century Magazine. and later reprinted in her books The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton and Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910). It is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters l..
Custom of the Country
by Edith WhartonThe Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their be..
Bunner Sisters
by Edith Wharton"Bunner Sisters," written in 1892 but not published until 1916 in Xingu and Other Stories, takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers and small handsewn articles to Stuyvesant Square's "female population."Ann Eliza gives Ev..
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
by Edith WhartonFighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort is composed, in part, from magazine articles by the American writer Edith Wharton on her time in France during the First World War, including her visits to the French sectors of the Western Front. "Four of the articles originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine" in 1915...
Crucial Instances
by Edith WhartonCrucial Instances is Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection. The book contains a collection of seven stories, including:The Duchess at PrayerThe Angel at the GraveThe RecoveryCopy: A DialogueThe RembrandtThe Moving FingerThe Confessional..
Descent of Man and Other Stories
by Edith WhartonThis collection appeared in book form in two distinct editions, both published in 1904. The Macmillian edition had ten stories; the Scribner's edition had nine (omitting "The Letter"). The two collections also ordered the stories differently; below I use the ordering of the larger Macmillan edition. The links below go to on-line illustrated edition..