The Greater Inclination

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.‪ Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.

This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories. Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nature and purpose of art.