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The Letters

Edith Wharton

First published October 1910
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

"Lizzie is swept up in a passionate (but chaste) affair with her pupil's father. Then the wife dies, he goes away, and Lizzie sends him letters, but never hears from him. Then, one day, there he is. She marries him and learns a hard truth about marriage." (Lynn Gardner)

Originally published in Century Magazine, August 1910.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1910 Tales of Men and Ghosts Charles Scribner's Sons Collection 375
October 2003 Tales of Men and Ghosts Project Gutenberg Collection
April 2005 Cover Tales of Men and Ghosts Wildside Press Collection
January 2010 Cover Tales of Men and Ghosts ValdeBooks Collection 204
April 2013 Cover Tales of Men and Ghosts CreateSpace Collection
July 2013 Cover Tales of Men and Ghosts LibriVox Collection |11