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.
Tales of Men and Ghosts : Stories of the Uncanny in Drawing-Room and Study
Geschrieben von Edith Wharton
