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Short Stories

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  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, volume 1. (Now available at the Wharton Society site, these texts can be searched for certain words or phrases.)
    • Text files from Project Gutenberg. Includes
  • "Kerfol"
  • "Mrs. Manstey's View" "Mrs. Manstey's View" (MOA)
  • "The Bolted Door"
  • "The Dilettante"
  • "The House of the Dead Hand"
  • and  poems.
  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, volume 2. (Now available at the Wharton Society site, these texts can be searched for certain words or phrases.)Text files from Project Gutenberg. Includes
  • "Afterward"
  • "The Fulness of Life" "The Fulness of Life" (MOA)
  • "A Venetian Night's Entertainment"
  • "Xingu"
  • "The Verdict"

    • Other Stories

    "The Lamp of Psyche" (MOA)
    "That Good May Come" (MOA)

  • "The Reckoning," and poems.
    • The Greater Inclination (1899)
  • The Muse's Tragedy (Scribner's, Jan. 1899)
  • A Journey
  • The Pelican
  • Souls Belated
  • A Coward
  • The Twilight of the God
  • A Cup of Cold Water
  • The Portrait 

    • Crucial Instances     (1901)
  • The Duchess at Prayer
  • The Angel at the Grave
  • The Recovery
  • Copy: A Dialogue (Scribner's, June 1900)
  • The Rembrandt
  • The Moving Finger
  • The Confessional
    • The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (1904)
  • The Descent of Man (Scribner's, 1904) 
  • The Other Two (Collier's Weekly, 1904) 
  • Expiation (Cosmopolitan, 1908) 
  • The Lady's Maid's Bell (Scribner's, 1902)
  • The Mission of Jane (Harper's Monthly, 1902) 
  • The Reckoning (Harper's Monthly, 1902) 
  • The Letter (Harper's Monthly, 1904)
  • The Dilettante (Harper's Monthly, 1903) 
  • The Quicksand (Harpers Monthly, 1902) 
  • A Venetian Night's Entertainment (Scribner's, 1903) 
    • The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908). Stories: 
  • The Hermit and the Wild Woman (Scribner's, Feb. 1906)
  • The Last Asset (Scribner's, August 1904) 
  • In Trust (Appleton's Booklovers Magazine, 1906)
  • The Pretext (Scribner's, August 1908) 
  • The Verdict (Scribner's, June 1908) 
  • The Pot-Boiler (Scribner's, December 1904) 
  • The Best Man (Collier's, 1905) 

    • "The Introducers" Ainslee's (January 1906)

    Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910)

  • The Bolted Door (Scribner's, 1908) 
  • His Father's Son (Scribner's, 1909) 
  • The Daunt Diana (Scribner's, 1909) 
  • The Debt (Scribner's, 1909)
  • Full Circle (Scribner's, 1909) 
  • The Legend (Scribner's, 1910) 
  • The Eyes (Scribner's, 1910) 
  • The Blond Beast (Scribner's, 1910) 
  • Afterward (Century Magazine, 1910) 
  • The Letters (Century Magazine, 1910) 

    • Xingu and Other Stories (1916)

  • Xingu (Scribner's, December 1911)
  • Coming Home
  • Autre Temps . . . (Century, July & August, 1911)
  • Kerfol (Scribner's, Mary 1916)
  • The Long Run
  • The Triumph of Night
  • The Choice
  • "Bunner Sisters" 
    • Here and Beyond (1926)
  • Miss Mary Pask
  • The Young Gentlemen
  • Bewitched
  • The Seed of the Faith
  • The Temperate Zone
  • Velvet Ear Pads
    • Certain People (1930)
  • Atrophy
  • A Bottle of Perrier
  • After Holbein
  • Dieu d'Amour
  • The Refugees
  • Mr. Jones
    • Human Nature (1933)
  • Her Son
  • The Day of the Funeral
  • A Glimpse
  • Joy in the House
  • Diagnosis
    • The World Over (1936)
  • Charm Incorporated
  • Pomegranate Seed
  • Permanent Wave
  • Confession
  • Roman Fever
  • The Looking Glass
  • Duration
    • Ghosts (1937)