This collection transformed her life. As she wrote in her memoir, “Any one walking along the streets might go into any bookshop, and say: ‘Please give me Edith Wharton’s book,’ and the clerk, without bursting into incredulous laughter, would produce it, and be paid for it, and the purchaser would walk home with it and read it, and talk of it, and pass it on to other people to read!”
Published in March 1899
