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21. Three Novels of Old New York: The House of Mirth; The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Edith Wharton | |
Paperback: 992
Pages
(1997-06-01)
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22. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(1997-10-10)
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Don't Miss "Afterward," a Great Ghost Story
A timeless treasure of tales I was unaware that Edith Wharton, known for such insightful novels as The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome (as well as the popular movies these novels inspired), had indulged in writing ghost stories other than "Afterward" until I found this collection. In Ghost Stories, Wharton reveals her mastery of the psychology of horror-where ghosts terrify through their oblique influence on the human mind and emotion-and where these human foibles create their own horrors. Wharton's ghosts take many forms-from the loyal retainer in "The Lady's Maid's Bell" to the loyal retainers of a different sort in "Kerfol"; from the guilt behind "The Eyes" to the guilt recognised "Afterward"; from the mysterious "Mr. Jones" to the ghostly and ghastly "Miss Mary Pask." Some of these visitations are not seen, or, in the case of "Kerfol," even heard. They fulfill various functions: To protect the secrets of the past, to bring the secrets of the past to light, to warn the present about the future, and to remind the living of the dead. Like the best ghost story writers, Wharton begins each tale with a scenario that seems ordinary enough. Early on, she drops subtle clues that build from a feeling that something is somewhat amiss up to a sense of fractured reality that shatters one's assumptions. Wharton masterfully creates ironic twists ("Miss Mary Pask"), innocent victims (the wife in "Afterward"), and nontraditional ghosts ("The Eyes," "Kerfol"). In many cases, the reader is one step ahead of the narrator or protagonist (Hitchcock's definition of suspense), creating a delicious sense of inevitable, unavoidable doom. If you are looking for the gore and thrills of today's tale of horror, you will not find them in Wharton's work. If, on the other hand, you appreciate the subtle, growing sense of terror that M. R. James insinuates into The Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, you'll discover the same feeling of the fine line between this world and another that can manifest itself at any time and in any way when the need arises. These are stories to be read, savored, and read again-alone, of course. Diane L. Schirf, 28 December 2003.
Not your average ghost stories
Delayed Impact
Classic Tales |
23. Edith Wharton: Selected Poems (American Poets Project) by Edith Wharton | |
Hardcover: 200
Pages
(2005-10-06)
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An impressive selection of verse by a most remarkable woman who lived a most remarkable life |
24. Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Edith Wharton | |
Hardcover: 416
Pages
(2008-02-05)
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Short stuff |
25. Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton: Perspectives on Landscape and Art by Sharon L. Dean | |
Hardcover: 268
Pages
(2002-11)
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26. A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton (Historical Guides to American Authors) | |
Paperback: 312
Pages
(2003-01-30)
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27. The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton by Gloria C. Erlich | |
Hardcover: 223
Pages
(1992-06-24)
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Aha! That's Where Undine Sprague Comes From |
28. Wharton: Four Novels (Library of America College Editions) by Edith Wharton | |
Paperback: 1168
Pages
(1996-10-01)
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Customs of the country |
29. Edith Wharton on Film by Parley Ann Boswell | |
Hardcover: 248
Pages
(2007-10-23)
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insight into Wharton as a person |
30. Ethan Frome & Summer (Modern Library Classics) by Edith Wharton | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2001-05-08)
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Tragic love |
31. The Age of Innocence (The Classic Collection) by Edith Wharton | |
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(2006-11-25)
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32. Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life: An Illustrated Biography by Eleanor Dwight | |
Paperback: 296
Pages
(1999-09-01)
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A MUST HAVE!!!
Aptly Titled Extraordinary!!! |
33. The Letters of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton, R. W. B. Lewis, Nancy Lewis | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1988-06)
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Amazon is selling the wrong book
Wharton's Letters
An excellent selection by a top scholar |
34. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (New York Review Books Classics) by Edith Wharton | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(2007-10-09)
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Classic Edith Wharton
Some fine vintage Wharton
All of her New York stories collected together |
35. A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Cynthia Griffin Wolff | |
Paperback: 512
Pages
(1994-10)
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36. Yrs, Ever Affly: The Correspondence of Edith Wharton and Louis Bromfield by Edith Wharton, Louis Bromfield, Carol Williams, editor Daniel Bratton | |
Calendar: 164
Pages
(2000-09)
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Editorial Review Book Description letters, one postcard, and a note from Wharton's secretary to Bromfield's wife, their correspondence is presented here with meticulous annotation by Daniel Bratton to give an insight into the private worlds of these two literary magnates. Customer Reviews (2)
Read of a shared love of travel and literature
"It has become a prized possession..." But the two, Wharton and Bromfield, shared a friendship when they lived in Europe, and much of their interests were about their wonderful gardens. Their letters touch on their writings and the fame they have achieved, (she asks for advice and he gives it) but you need to love gardening to really appreciate the book. The format is such a pleasure. The paper, the type and the many illustrations and drawings are joy. A special treat for me, was the reprint of the tribute to Wharton, written by Bromfield. The writing is superb, and I forgave him (Bromfield) all the stuff he later wrote to try to keep Malabar solvent. Best of all is that this fine book was edited (from much research) by Shirl and Dave's boy. I feel like a proud great aunt to someone I've never seen. ... Read more |
37. Old New York by Edith Wharton | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(1995-03-01)
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Novellas
Attention Wharton-alholics
Very Slow-Going...
Terrific Wharton Collection Overall, this collection is likely to please fans of Edith Wharton and people who enjoy American literature from the early 20th century.Wharton is an superb author of the finest caliber, and I look forward to reading more of her books.
The story-telling talents of Edith Warthon! |
38. The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(1996-10-03)
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Editorial Review Book Description Oddly enough, Kate has been summoned back by that same daughter, Anne, now fully grown and intent on marrying Chris Fenno, a war hero, dilettante, and social opportunist. Chris's questionable intentions toward her daughter are, however, the least of Kate's worries since she was once, and still is, deeply in love with him. Kate's moral quandary and the ensuing drama evoke comparison with Oedipus and Hamlet and lead to an ending that startled the mores of the day. Customer Reviews (2)
A Mother's Dilemma
A Fantastic Voyage Across an Hysterical Sea |
39. Edith Wharton (Vintage) by Hermione Lee | |
Paperback: 912
Pages
(2008-04-08)
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Editorial Review Book Description Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton--tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary professionalism and thrived in a luminous society that included Bernard Berenson, Aldous Huxley and most famously Henry James, who here emerges more as peer than as master. Wharton's life was fed by nonliterary enthusiasms as well: her fabled houses and gardens, her heroic relief efforts during the Great War, the culture of the Old World, which she never tired of absorbing. Yet intimacy eluded her: unhappily married and childless, her one brush with passion came and went in midlife, an affair vividly, intimately recounted here. With profound empathy and insight, Lee brilliantly interweaves Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her far to be more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age. In its revelation of both the woman and the writer, Edith Wharton is a landmark biography. Hermione Lee's Reading Guide to Edith Wharton Hermione Lee, about whose Virginia Woolf the Amazon.com reviewer wrote, "Biographies don't get much better than this," has turned for her next major subject to Edith Wharton. Wharton's classics, including The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, are known to many readers, but Lee has prepared exclusively for us a Reading Guide to Edith Wharton that goes beyond those familiar titles to unearth lesser-known gems among her remarkable stories and novels, from the story "After Holbein," "a masterpiece of ghoulish, chilling satire," to The Custom of the Country, her "most ruthless, powerful, and savage novel." Customer Reviews (11)
Lots of Detail
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton: The great American novelist's life is presented in exquisite detail by biographer Hermione Lee
The Angel of Devastation
Neither well edited nor fact-checked |
40. New York Novels (Modern Library) by Edith Wharton | |
Hardcover: 958
Pages
(1998-07-07)
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