Crucial Instances
# Crucial Instances

Crucial Instances is a 1901 short story collection by Edith Wharton.

The book contains a collection of seven stories:

* "The Duchess at Prayer"
* "The Angel at the Grave"
* "The Recovery"
* "Copy: A Dialogue"
* "The Rembrandt"
* "The Moving Finger"
* "The Confessional"

The story The Duchess at Prayer is a rewriting of Honoré de Balzac's short story La Grande Bretèche (1831).

