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).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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