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Bewitched

The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton
By Edith Wharton
Series: British Library Gilded Nightmares
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Drawing from a lifetime of supernatural short-story writing, this new collection of Edith Wharton's greatest and most chilling tales showcases one of the most talented ghost story practitioners of all time at her very best. This new edition features a new introductory essay discussing Wharton's indelible... Read More
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A new edition exploring the works of one of the great ghost story writers, Edith Wharton, aiming to position her firmly amongst the household names published so far in the Gilded Nightmares series.

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Drawing from a lifetime of supernatural short-story writing, this new collection of Edith Wharton's greatest and most chilling tales showcases one of the most talented ghost story practitioners of all time at her very best.

This new edition features a new introductory essay discussing Wharton's indelible influence on the ghost story genre, as well as rarely anthologised tales from the British Library's editions of the legendary author's extensive oeuvre.

Series: British Library Gilded Nightmares

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780712355872

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: British Library Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Mike Ashley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 149.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 250g

Collections

Classic Fiction Classic Horror & Ghost Stories Edith Wharton Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Series: British Library Gilded Nightmares

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American writer whose best-known works are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which Edith won the Pulitzer Prize, becoming the first woman ever to do so. As well as writing novels, she wrote over eighty short stories and published the celebrated collections of uncanny stories Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910), Xingu and Other Stories (1916) and her collection of personal favourites, Ghosts (1937).

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