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The Descent of Man and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by American novelist and playwright. Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York society at the turn of the twentieth century.

The stories are:

• The Descent of Man
• The Other Two 
• Expiation 
• The Lady's Maid's Bell
• The Mission of Jane 
• The Reckoning
• The Letter
• The Dilettante
• The Quicksand
• A Venetian Night's Entertainment