The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton (VMC) - Hardcover

Wharton, Edith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0349009678 ISBN 13: 9780349009674

Publisher: Virago, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0349009678
• ISBN 13: 9780349009674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384