Collected Stories 1911-1937

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Here is Wharton's sly and subtle humor and her flair for puncturing social pretensions; her provocative delineation of sexuality and woment's roles and the emotional price exacted by the rules of decorum; and her excursions into the uncanny and supernatural, in which her lucid prose makes her explorations of irrational forces all the more unsettling