Edith Wharton’s first collection of stories, published in 1899, already shows her mastery of moral irony. A young admirer meets the woman a great poet loved, a wife travels home by train beside a dying husband, a lecturing widow trades on her son, and an eloping couple in an Italian hotel discover that leaving society is harder than they thought.
The book that launched Wharton’s career, ideal for readers who know her later novels. Download the free EPUB.