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9780712355872: Bewitched: The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton: 18 (British Library Gilded Nightmares)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0712355871 ISBN 13: 9780712355872
Publisher: British Library Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

A new edition exploring the works of one of the great ghost story writers, Edith Wharton, aiming to position her firmly amongst the household names published so far in the Gilded Nightmares series. Featuring some of Wharton’s essential classics such as ‘The Eyes’ and ‘Afterward’ along with less-anthologised masterpieces of the short story form.

Drawing from a lifetime of supernatural short-story writing, this new collection of Wharton’s greatest, and most chilling, tales show one of the most talented ghost story practitioners of all time at her very best.

This new edition will feature a new introductory essay discussing Wharton’s indelible influence on the ghost story genre, as well as rarely anthologised tales from the British Library’s editions of the legendary author’s extensive oeuvre.

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About the Author

Edith Wharton (18621937) was an American writer whose best-known works are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which Edith won the Pulitzer Prize, becoming the first woman ever to do so. As well as writing novels, she wrote over eighty short stories and published the celebrated collections of uncanny stories Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910), Xingu and Other Stories (1916) and her collection of personal favourites, Ghosts (1937).

From the Back Cover

A new edition exploring the works of one of the great ghost story writers, Edith Wharton, aiming to position her firmly amongst the household names published so far in the Gilded Nightmares series. Featuring some of Wharton’s essential classics such as ‘The Eyes’ and ‘Afterward’ along with less-anthologised masterpieces of the short story form.

Drawing from a lifetime of supernatural short-story writing, this new collection of Wharton’s greatest, and most chilling, tales show one of the most talented ghost story practitioners of all time at her very best.

This new edition will feature a new introductory essay discussing Wharton’s indelible influence on the ghost story genre, as well as rarely anthologised tales from the British Library’s editions of the legendary author’s extensive oeuvre

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Publisher
British Library Publishing
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0712355871
ISBN 13 
9780712355872
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256
Editor
Mike Ashley