The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton av Edith Wharton

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<p><b>With a new introduction by Kelly Link</b><br><br>In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman''s reputation. Brittany conjures ancient cruelties, Dorset witnesses a retrospective haunting and a New York club cushions an elderly aesthete as he tells of the ghastly eyes haunting his nights.<br><br>Stories include: 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''<br><br>Also includes an Introduction and Autobiographical Postscript by the author.</p>