Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Edith Wharton

Volume 1-Seventeen Short Tales of the Strange and Unusual

Szerző: Edith Wharton

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Leonaur Ltd

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A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author The A...

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Szerző

Edith Wharton

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2016

oldal

356

EAN

9781782825463

ISBN

1782825460

Enbook ID

15188722

Kiadó

Leonaur Ltd

Súly

449

Méretek

140 x 216 x 20

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A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Perhaps predictably, she married into another prosperous family when she became the wife of Bostonian, 'Teddy' Wharton in 1883. Edith's wealth opened the world to her and she became a prodigious traveller and lived for periods of time in Europe. Always creative, Edith became a proficient interior designer, garden designer and was a successful socialite becoming a style setter of her day. Her writing was, however, her most outstanding achievement. Wharton wrote novels, short stories, travel books and poetry. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for literature for 'Age of Innocence' (1920) and was nominated for the Nobel prize for literature on three occasions. She became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour for her work in support of the Allied cause during the First World War. Since Edith Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories and was a woman of her times it would be surprising if she had not contributed, frequently with an American twist, to the genre of supernatural and bizarre fiction. Indeed, her taste and talent for chilling tales and her readership's enthusiastic appetite for them have ensured this Leonaur collection fills two satisfying volumes. Stories in this volume include: 'The Looking Glass', 'Kerfol', 'The Triumph of Night', 'Afterward', 'A Bottle of Perrier' and twelve others. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

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