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Ghosts: Stories

By Edith Wharton

Ghosts: Stories Essays & Short Stories

Ghosts: Stories

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"No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton's most dedicated admirers are unaware that she was a master of the form. In fact, one of Wharton's final literary acts was assembling Ghosts, a personal selection of her own most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937 ... In all her writing, Wharton's great gift was to mercilessly illuminate the motives of men and women, and her ghost stories never stray far from the preoccupations of the living, using the supernatural to investigate such worldly matters as violence within marriage, the horrors of aging, the rot at the root of new fortunes, the darkness that stares back from the abyss of one's own soul"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2021-10-26
Publication Date:
2021-10-26
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1681375729
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
295 g
Height:
20.3 cm
Width:
12.7 cm
Thickness:
1.4 cm
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