Tales of Men and Ghosts: Stories of the Uncanny in Drawing-Room and Study
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Arnold Böcklin, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Odilon Redon. Wharton's ghosts do not rattle: a clerk who invents a correspondence, a man haunted by the letters of a life he did not live, a Dorset manor where a husband walks out with a stranger and the ghost is recognised only afterward. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer, and she said she needed to be alone in a room to be frightened — these ten stories are built out of exactly that solitude, and out of money, which for her was the other supernatural force. Fifty-seven plates of nineteenth-century American painting, from Sargent's drawing-room tea and dinner parties to Hamilton's gathering storms and Gifford's burning oil well, give these ten tales of uneasy interiors their weather.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Arnold Böcklin, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Odilon Redon. Wharton's ghosts do not rattle: a clerk who invents a correspondence, a man haunted by the letters of a life he did not live, a Dorset manor where a husband walks out with a stranger and the ...
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist born into old New York society and resident in France from middle age. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for The Age of Innocence, and was decorated for her relief work in the First World War. Her works include The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist born into old New York society and resident in France from middle age. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for The Age of Innocence, and was decorated for her relief work in the First World War. Her works include Th...
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