Xingu and Other Stories Categories: Fiction

The opening title story, about a woman’s book club welcoming Osric Dane to discuss her latest novel, The Wings of Death, is one of Wharton’s funniest. The final story, “Bunner Sisters,” about two impoverished sisters who run a small shop and how their lives change once a man comes courting, is one of her saddest.

In between are six more stories: “Coming Home,” a war story; two ghost stories, “Kerfol” and “Triumph of the Night”; and three ironic tales of upper-class infidelity, “Autres Temps,” “The Long Run,” and “The Choice.”

Published in October 1916