title: Crucial Instances
text: # 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).
  
  