The greater inclination. By: Edith Wharton: Short story collections

The muse's tragedy -- A journey -- The pelican -- Souls belated -- A coward -- The twilight of the god -- A cup of cold water -- The portrait Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, i...