The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton (English) Paperback Book

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Compelling, rich and strange, the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured and grown more potent with the passing years.

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Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. While claiming not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them. Wharton imbues this potent irrational and imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre. Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman's reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife; and the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy. Compelling, rich and strange, the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured and grown more potent with the passing years. Stories include: The Lady's Maid's Bell The Eyes Afterward Kerfol The Triumph of Night The Duchess at Prayer Miss Mary Pask Bewitched The Fulness of Life Mr Jones Pomegranate Seed The Looking Glass A Journey All Souls' A Bottle of Perrier Compelling, rich and strange, the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured and grown more potent with the passing years.

Details ISBN184022164X Author David Stuart Davies Pages 304 Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd Year 2009 ISBN-10 184022164X ISBN-13 9781840221640 Format Paperback Publication Date 2009-01-05 Imprint Wordsworth Editions Ltd Place of Publication Herts Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1862 Death 1937 Media Book Language English DEWEY FIC UK Release Date 2009-01-05 AU Release Date 2009-01-05 NZ Release Date 2009-01-05 Audience General Series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural We've got this

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