Edith Wharton Book

	Preface
Pt. 1	The Short Fiction
	Wharton's Telling of the Short Story: Theory and Practice	3
	The Early Stories: Angel at the Grave	27
	Young Gentlemen Narrators, Ghosts, and Married Couples in the Middle Stories	57
	The Refugees: The Revenge of the Dispossessed in the Late Stories	83
	Notes to Part 1	108
Pt. 2	The Writer
	Introduction	127
	"Telling a Short Story"	128
	Preface to Ghosts	139
	Selections from A Backward Glance	143
	Selections from The Letters of Edith Wharton	149
Pt. 3	The Critics
	Introduction	155
	R.W.B. Lewis	156
	Sandra M. Gilbert	164
	Chronology	171
	Selected Bibliography	173
	Index	184