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 The Triumph of Night
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- by Edith Wharton
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- Edith
Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist and short
story writer who, with The Age of
Innocence, became the first woman to be awarded
the Pulitzer Prize. Her short stories, like her novels,
are keenly observed, and exhibit the influence of her
friend, Henry James.
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- Throughout her career Wharton wrote ghost
stories, and is a central figure within the genre in the
twentieth century. When she collected many of her ghost
stories together in Ghosts (1937) she put them under the
'special protection' of Walter de la Mare. Like him, she
manages to evoke uncannily convincing atmospheres and
characters, and in such stories as 'Afterward' the way in
which the tale is told is so satisfying that one can only
admire her craftsmanship.
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- Wharton's collection Ghosts is described by E.F.
Bleiler as a 'landmark volume in supernatural fiction',
and to this we have been able to add a number of other
tales of the supernatural, many of which will be unknown
to her readers.
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- Contents: "Preface", "The Fullness of
Life", "A Journey", "The Duchess at Prayer", "The Lady's
Maid's Bell", "Afterward ", "The Eyes", "The Triumph of
Night", "Kerfol", "Bewitched", "Miss Mary Pask", "A
Bottle of Perrier", "Mr Jones", "Pomegranate Seed," "The
Looking-Glass", "All Souls", "An Autobiographical
Postscript".
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- The
Triumph of Night is a sewn hardback of 310 pages. Limited
to 350 copies.
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- Price
£32.50/$50 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-06-6
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- Review:
- 'Readers
of her ghost stories today can enjoy Wharton’s wry
scepticism, and in the process, perhaps have their own
creative muscles strengthened to face that which is
ghostly about today’s world.' Ann L. Patten,
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror
Studies.
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Page updated
27th November 2008
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