Bunner Sisters
by Edith Wharton | 
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann | 
Difficult Loves
by Italo Calvino | 
Dubliners
by James Joyce | 
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor | 
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig | 
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton | 
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor | 
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love
by Raymond Carver | 
Where I'm Calling From
by Raymond Carver | 
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson | 
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson | 
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver | 
The Complete Short Stories
by Ernest Hemingway | 
Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor | 
The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever | 
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
by Raymond Carver | 
The Complete Short Novels
by Anton Chekhov | 
Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville |
A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime. The best of her short fiction is collected here in Roman Fever and Other Stories. From her picture of erotic love and illegitimacy in the title story to her exploration of the aftermath of divorce detailed in "Souls Belated" and "The Last Asset," Wharton shows her usual skill "in dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social restrictions," as Cynthia Griffin Wolff writes in her introduction. Roman Fever and Other Stories is a surprisingly contemporary volume of stories by one of our most enduring writers.