Edith Wharton

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rich and strange, these stories reveal a seductive and little-known aspect of this superb classic writer.

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Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 132mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780349009674
• ISBN-10: 0349009678
• Artikelnr.: 52987833

Autorenporträt

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York, and later lived in Rhode Island and France. Her first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, and by 1913 she was writing at least one book a year. During the First World War she was awarded the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur and the Order of Leopold. In 1920, The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize; she was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and in 1930 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters. She died in 1937.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
The Lady's Maid's Bell
The Eyes
Afterward
Kerfol
The Triumph of Night
Miss Mary Pask
Bewitched
Mr. Jones
Pomegranate Seed
The Looking Glass
All Souls'
An Autobiographical Postscript