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The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton

By Edith Wharton
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton presents a collection of elegant and atmospheric tales steeped in the supernatural. Set across locations from icy New England to ancient Brittany and Dorset, Wharton explores themes of haunting, bewitched lives, and eerie foreshadowings. Each story, from the ghostly bell that saves a reputation to the chilling eyes that torment an aesthete, evokes a mood of disquiet and dark elegance rooted in her era.
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This collection will appeal to readers who appreciate classic ghost stories and literary horror, especially those interested in early 20th-century supernatural fiction.

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Rich and strange, these stories reveal a seductive and little-known aspect of this superb classic writer.

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With a new introduction by Kelly Link

In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy New England, a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient cruelties, Dorset witnesses a retrospective haunting, and a New York club cushions an elderly aesthete as he tells of the ghastly eyes haunting his nights.

Stories include: The Lady's Maid's Bell; The Eyes; Afterward; Kerfol; The Triumph of Night; Miss Mary Pask; Bewitched; Mr Jones; Pomegranate Seed; The Looking Glass; All Souls'.

Also includes an Introduction and Autobiographical Postscript by the author.

Series: Virago Modern Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349009674

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Kelly Link

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 525g

Pages: 384

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Edith Wharton Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Series: Virago Modern Classics

About the Author

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York, and later lived in Rhode Island and France. Her first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, and by 1913 she was writing at least one book a year. During the First World War she was awarded the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur and the Order of Leopold. In 1920, The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize; she was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and in 1930 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters. She died in 1937.

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