Crucial Instances is a 1901 short story collection by Edith Wharton.
Stories
editThe book contains a collection of seven stories:
- "The Duchess at Prayer"
- "The Angel at the Grave"
- "The Recovery"
- "Copy: A Dialogue"
- "The Rembrandt"
- "The Moving Finger"
- "The Confessional"
The story The Duchess at Prayer is a rewriting of Honoré de Balzac's short story La Grande Bretèche (1831).[1]
References
edit- ^ Edith Wharton and “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Eleanor Dwight, published in Poe and Our Times: Influences and Affinities, Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1986, pp. 49-57.
External links
edit- Crucial Instances at Faded Page (Canada)
- The full text of Crucial Instances at Project Gutenberg
- Read Crucial Instances over email at DailyReader.net
- Google books information on Crucial Instances at Google Books
- Crucial Instances public domain audiobook at LibriVox