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

^ 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

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

Novels

The House of Mirth (1905)
The Reef (1912)
The Custom of the Country (1913)
Summer (1917)
The Age of Innocence (1920)
The Glimpses of the Moon (1922)
Twilight Sleep (1927)
The Buccaneers (1938)

Novellas
and novelette

The Touchstone (1900)
Ethan Frome (1911)
Bunner Sisters (1916)
Old New York (1924)

Short story
collections

The Greater Inclination (1899)
Crucial Instances (1901)

Non-fiction

The Decoration of Houses (1897)
Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (1915)

As editor

The Book of the Homeless (1916)

Adaptations

Film	The House of Mirth (1918) The Glimpses of the Moon (1923) The Age of Innocence (1924) The Marriage Playground (1929) The Age of Innocence (1934) Strange Wives (1934) The Old Maid (1939) The Children (1990) Ethan Frome (1993) The Age of Innocence (1993) The Reef (1999) The House of Mirth (2000)
Television	The House of Mirth (1981) The Buccaneers (1995) The Buccaneers (2023)

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The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)

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