The early stories, where the machinery is already assembled: a wife who will not divorce, a man who inherits a manuscript, the muse of a dead poet, a couple who meet in the afterlife and find the arrangement is not what either was promised. Wharton was born into the old New York money whose rules she spent her career dissecting, and became the first woman to take the Pulitzer. These are the pieces where she learned to be merciless.
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The Ghost Stories : Psychological Supernatural Fiction of Haunted Houses, Repressed Desire, and Moral Aftershock in Gilded Age Society
Ethan Frome and Summer - Two Classics by Edith Wharton! - Unabridged :
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Edith Wharton's Summer - Unabridged :
Edith Wharton's New York Stories Vol. 1
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Ethan Frome (Unabridged)
The Complete Works of Edith Wharton
50 Masterpieces You Have to Read : Volume Two - A Second Library of World Literature
The Complete Works of Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
