Crucial Instances

Crucial Instances is a 1901 short story collection by Edith Wharton.

Stories

The 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

  1. ^ 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.
  • Crucial Instances at Faded Page (Canada)
  • The full text of Crucial Instances at Project Gutenberg
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  • Google books information on Crucial Instances at Google Books
  • Crucial Instances public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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Edith Wharton
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Television
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