{"product_id":"ghosts-paperback-3","title":"Ghosts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo 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 \u003ci\u003eGhosts\u003c\/i\u003e, a personal selection of her most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Souls'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lady's Maid's Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKerfol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiss Mary Pask\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBewitched\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMr. Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePomegranate Seed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Bottle of Perrier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdith Wharton\u003c\/b\u003e (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and designer. Among the most famous of her many novels are \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Custom of the Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, the first woman to do so. In 2007 NYRB Classics published a collection of her short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Stories of Edith Wharton\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.95 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699212914751,"sku":"9781681375724","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ddbdbe1f65a6fe41eac5d65a3c748dff.webp?v=1765012849","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/ghosts-paperback-3","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}