*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Volume 2' is a collection of short stories that includes 'Afterward', 'The Fullness of Life', 'The Venetian Night's Entertainment', 'Xingu', 'The Verdict' 'The Reckoning', and a selection of verse. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner s Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her many short stories, titled 'Mrs. Manstey s View'. Over the next four decades, they along with other well-established American publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Harper s and Lippincott s regularly published her work."