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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton Book PDF

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447480525

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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton's masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart. As a keen observer of human nature, Wharton weaves her ghostly tales with remarkable subtlety and psychological depth. Her ghosts are not mere apparitions but poignant manifestations of guilt, regret, and unrequited desires. Through her elegant prose and sharp wit, Wharton delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring themes of forbidden passions, societal constraints, and the persistent power of the past. Each setting serves as the backdrop for chilling encounters with the spectral realm. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton is a testament to Wharton's versatility as a writer. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, she imbues her tales with atmospheric tension, challenging the reader to question what lies beyond our mortal existence.

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton Book PDF

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439188521

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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, "...till I was twenty-seven or -eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a ghost story." Once her fear was overcome, however, she took to writing tales of the supernatural for publication in the magazines of the day. These eleven finely wrought pieces showcase her mastery of the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other supernatural phenomena. Called "flawlessly eerie" by Ms. magazine, this collection includes "Pomegranate Seed," "The Eyes," "All Souls'," "The Looking Glass," and "The Triumph of Night."

Ghosts

Edith Wharton
Ghosts Book PDF

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375724

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Ghosts by Edith Wharton Pdf

An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself. 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 most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937. In “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” the earliest tale included here, a servant’s dedication to her mistress continues from beyond the grave, and in “All Souls,” the last story Wharton wrote, an elderly woman treads the permeable line between life and the hereafter. 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. These are stories to “send a cold shiver down one’s spine,” not to terrify, and as Wharton explains in her preface, her goal in writing them was to counter “the hard grind of modern speeding-up” by preserving that ineffable space of “silence and continuity,” which is not merely the prerogative of humanity but—“in the fun of the shudder”—its delight. Contents All Souls’ The Eyes Afterward The Lady’s Maid’s Bell Kerfol The Triumph of Night Miss Mary Pask Bewitched Mr. Jones Pomegranate Seed A Bottle of Perrier

Afterward

Edith Wharton
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Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771961349

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Afterward by Edith Wharton Pdf

A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappears shortly after this eerie encounter, the wife learns the truth about the legend that haunts the ancient estate.

Tales of Men and Ghosts

Edith Wharton
Tales of Men and Ghosts Book PDF

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547062233

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Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton Pdf

"Tales of Men and Ghosts" is a collection of stories on various topics first published in 1912. Despite the name, only two stories in the collection tell of the supernatural. Other topics vary from dealing with intellectual fashions of the day, like Darwinism or Nietzscheanism, to the manners of life in New York. The author puts her characters to moral and ironic tests, creating an engaging read for everyone.

Bewitched

Edith Wharton
Bewitched Book PDF

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528786607

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Bewitched by Edith Wharton Pdf

“Bewitched” is a short story by Edith Warton, first published in 1926 in the collection “Here and Beyond”. The stories include ghost stories, character studies and social dramas set in Brittany, New England, and Morocco. Along with “The Young Gentleman”, “Bewitched” shows clear Gothic leanings, especially in its emphasis on architecture and the gradual revealing of secrets. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and designer. She is famous for using her intimate knowledge of aristocratic New York society to authentically portray life during the Gilded Age. She was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Other notable works by this author include: “A Son at the Front” (1923), “The Mother's Recompense” (1925), and “Twilight Sleep” (1927). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton Book PDF

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174364

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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

A New York Review Books Original Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged. Illuminated by Roxana Robinson’s Introduction, these stories showcase Wharton’s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.

The Lady's Maid's Bell

Edith Wharton
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Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 149612328X

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The Lady's Maid's Bell by Edith Wharton Pdf

The Lady's Maid's Bell is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt. Wharton was born to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander in New York City. She had two brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. The saying "Keeping up with the Joneses" is said to refer to her father's family. She was also related to the Rensselaer family, the most prestigious of the old patroon families. She had a lifelong friendship with her Rhinelander niece, landscape architect Beatrix Farrand of Reef Point in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 1885, at 23, she married Edward (Teddy) Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years older. From a well-established Philadelphia family, he was a sportsman and gentleman of the same social class and shared her love of travel. From the late 1880s until 1902, he suffered acute depression, and the couple ceased their extensive travel. At that time his depression manifested as a more serious disorder, after which they lived almost exclusively at The Mount, their estate designed by Edith Wharton. In 1908 her husband's mental state was determined to be incurable. She divorced him in 1913. Around the same time, Edith was overcome with the harsh criticisms leveled by the naturalist writers. Later in 1908 she began an affair with Morton Fullerton, a journalist for The Times, in whom she found an intellectual partner. In addition to novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories. She was also a garden designer, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several design books, including her first published work, The Decoration of Houses of 1897, co-authored by Ogden Codman. Another is the generously illustrated Italian Villas and Their Gardens of 1904.

Ghost Stories: Forgotten Classic Tales

Leslie S. Klinger,Lisa Morton
Ghost Stories Forgotten Classic Tales Book PDF

Author : Leslie S. Klinger,Lisa Morton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643131191

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Ghost Stories: Forgotten Classic Tales by Leslie S. Klinger,Lisa Morton Pdf

A masterful collection of ghost stories that have been overlooked by contemporary readers—including tales by celebrated authors such as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton—presented with insightful annotations by acclaimed horror anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton. The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. Acclaimed anthologists Leslie S. Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) and Lisa Morton (Ghosts: A Haunted History) set these stories in historical context and trace the literary significance of ghosts in fiction over almost two hundred years—from a traditional English ballad first printed in 1724 through the Christmas-themed ghost stories of the Victorian era and up to the science fiction–tinged tales of the early twentieth century. In bringing these masterful tales back from the dead, Ghost Stories will enlighten and frighten both longtime fans and new readers of the genre. Including stories by: Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Georgia Wood Pangborn, Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Walter Scott, Frank Stockton, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton.

Mr. Jones

Edith Wharton
Mr Jones Book PDF

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338096494

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Mr. Jones by Edith Wharton Pdf

'Mr. Jones' is a horror novel written by Edith Wharton. It is about a woman, who one day receives a notice that she is inheriting an estate that is near-abandoned. Only a group of servants lived to take care of the house, or so it might seem, for a ghostly figure seems to be shadowing her every move.

Kerfol

Edith Wharton
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Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728127414

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Kerfol by Edith Wharton Pdf

‘Kerfol’ is one of Wharton’s more unusual ghost stories, in that the ghosts of the piece aren’t human. Chilling and tragic, this tale tells of Anne de Cornault, who is considering buying an estate in France. We discover that the estate, ‘Kerfol,’ (which translates from the Breton as ‘house of madness’) was once the scene of a murder. An atmospheric read, ‘Kerfol’ is an exploration of an unhappy marriage and revenge from beyond the grave. A perfect spine-tingler from the pen of a master storyteller. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.

Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories

Rex Collings
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories Book PDF

Author : Rex Collings
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 184022066X

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Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Rex Collings Pdf

This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.

The Eyes

Edith Wharton
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Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 1910296171

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The Eyes by Edith Wharton Pdf

Edwin Culwin wakes up to find a ghastly pair of eyes staring at him, the eyes of a man 'who has done a lot of harm in his life'. They pursue him wherever he goes; he doesn't know why; he doesn't know who they belong to - but he can feel his soul being pierced. Part of Galley Beggar's new Ghosts series.

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl s Book of Ghost Stories Book PDF

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241955710

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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl Pdf

Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women

Marie O'Regan
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women Book PDF

Author : Marie O'Regan
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780330259

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The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women by Marie O'Regan Pdf

25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror and the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these, from Amelia B. Edwards's 'The Phantom Coach', published in 1864, through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, to modern talents including Muriel Gray, Sarah Pinborough and Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones, and from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence, what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin, a feeling of something not quite present, but nevertheless there. If anything, this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying . . .