Volume 48, Number 15 · October 4, 2001
The Unknown Edith Wharton
By Hermione Lee
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910
selected and with notes by Maureen Howard
Library of America, 928 pp., $35.00
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937
selected and with notes by Maureen Howard
Library of America, 848 pp., $35.00
The Library of America's collection is a splendid and satisfying publication, and a landmark in the history of Edith Wharton's ever-shifting reputation; but it is not the whole story. In Maureen Howard's two-volume edition there are sixty-seven stories, which span forty-six years (1891 to 1937). These include three of Wharton's less well known novellas ('The Touchstone,' 'Sanctuary,' and 'The Marne'), originally published as individual titles, and some, but not all, of the mostly early stories which she didn't choose to republish in her lifetime after their magazine appearance. Twenty-two stories are omitted.
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