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THE GHOST STORIES OF EDITH WHARTON




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Συνήθως αποστέλλεται εντός 10 εργάσιμων ημερών (προϋπόθεση στοκ προμηθευτή)





Κωδικός είδους :
118.2283
Βάρος :
0.206 kg
Συγγραφέας :
Εκδότης :
Διαστάσεις :
12,5x19,5
Εξώφυλλο :
Μαλακό
Σελίδες :
304
Barcode :
9781840221640
ISBN :
978-1-84022-164-0
Ετος κυκλοφορίας :
2009

Περιγραφή

Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies.

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