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Title: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10)

Author: Edith Wharton

Posting Date: July 12, 2008 [EBook #295]
Release Date: July, 1995

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EARLY SHORT FICTION ***

Produced by Judith Boss

THE EARLY SHORT FICTION OF EDITH WHARTON

By Edith Wharton

A Ten-Volume Collection

Volume One

Contents of Volume One

Stories
KERFOL.........................March 1916
MRS. MANSTEY'S VIEW............July 1891
THE BOLTED DOOR................March 1909
THE DILETTANTE.................December 1903
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD HAND.....August 1904

The following works not included in the present eBook:

Verse
THE PARTING DAY................February 1880
AEROPAGUS......................March 1880
A FAILURE......................April 1880
PATIENCE.......................April 1880
WANTS..........................May 1880
THE LAST GIUSTIANINI...........October 1889
EURYALUS.......................December 1889
HAPPINESS......................December 1889

Bibliography

EDITH WHARTON BIBLIOGRAPHY:
SHORT STORIES AND POEMS........Judy Boss

KERFOL

As first published in Scribner's Magazine, March 1916

I

"You ought to buy it," said my host; "it's just the place for a
solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to
own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead
broke, and it's going for a song--you ought to buy it."

It was not with the least idea of living up to the character my friend
Lanrivain ascribed to me (as a matter of fact, under my unsociable
exterior I have always had secret yearnings for domesticity) that I took
his hint one a