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Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 144748052X |
Download The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2011-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590174364 |
Download The New York Stories of Edith Wharton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These 20 short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times). “Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” —New York Times 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.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681375729 |
Download Ghosts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1994-10-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 048628235X |
Download Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a collection of short stories about love, marriage, and divorce, including "Souls belated," "The pelican," and "The other two."
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780874517156 |
Download Wharton's New England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tales of betrayal, folly, and moral fervor acted out against a stark New England backdrop.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Stories of Edith Wharton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Written from the turn of the century to the 1930s, these short stories offer look at the glittering but restrictive society of New York and cosmopolitan Europe, as well as portraits of women in search of fulfillment.
Author | : Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780099358916 |
Download Edith Wharton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Summer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the first novels to deal honestly with a woman's sexual awakening, "Summer" created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ethan Frome" shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
Author | : Jeffrey Archer |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2010-06-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429967323 |
Download The Collected Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has enthralled readers with his riveting suspense, surprise denouements, and unforgettable storylines. Now Archer's three acclaimed collections of short fiction are brought together in one irresistible volume. THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES A Quiver Full of Arrows takes readers on a journey of encounters that befall an assortment of kindly strangers, wary old friends, and long-lost loves. Sly reflections on human nature are at the center of A Twist in the Tale in which blindly adventurous game-players compete for stakes higher than they dreamed. Expect the unexpected and you'll still be surprised in Twelve Red Herrings, a dozen tales of betrayal, love, murder and revenge capped with a startling twist. Thirty-six stories in all, each poised to astonish and inspire, revealing "master entertainer" (Time) Jeffrey Archer at his artfully entertaining best.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780142437582 |
Download The Portable Edith Wharton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This unique collection is a rich representation of the works of one of the greatest 20th-century American writers, best known for her novels depicting the stifling conformity and ceremoniousness of the upper-class New York society into which she was born.