Crucial Instances

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

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.


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