The Greater Inclination

The Greater Inclination was the earliest collection of short fiction from Edith Wharton. It was published by Charles Scribner's Sons on the 25th of March, 1899. The first edition printing of 1,250 sold out by June of the same year. The collection consisted of eight works, seven of which are short fiction, and one is a short play in two acts.

The Stories

The Muse's Tragedy (Scribner's Magazine, January 1899)
A Journey
The Pelican
Souls Belated
A Coward
The Twilight of the God
A Cup of Cold Water
The Portrait

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Fiction of Edith Wharton

Novels	The Touchstone (1900) The Valley of Decision (1902) Sanctuary (1903) The House of Mirth (1905) Madame de Treymes (1907) The Fruit of the Tree (1907) Ethan Frome (1911) The Reef (1912) The Custom of the Country (1913) Summer (1917) The Marne (1918) The Age of Innocence (1920) The Glimpses of the Moon (1922) A Son at the Front (1923) Old New York (1924) The Mother's Recompense (1925) Twilight Sleep (1927) The Children (1928) Hudson River Bracketed (1929) The Gods Arrive (1932) The Buccaneers (1938) Fast and Loose (1938)

Short story collections	The Greater Inclination (1899) Crucial Instances (1901) The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1903) The Other Two (1904) The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories (1908) Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910) Xingu and Other Stories (1916) Here and Beyond (1926) Certain People (1930) Human Nature (1933) The World Over (1936) Ghosts (1937)