Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928, and 1930.
Among her most popular and terrifying tales are the many masterly ghost stories which she wrote in her early career. This selection presents six of her best tales: “Afterward,” “The Eyes,” “The Debt,” “Kerfol,” “Miss Mary Pask,” and “Pomegranate Seed.”
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Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is the author of the novels The Age of Innocence and Old New York, both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the first woman to receive that honor. In 1929 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. She was born in New York and is best known for her stories of life among the upper-class society into which she was born. She was educated privately at home and in Europe. In 1894 she began writing fiction, and her novel The House of Mirth established her as a leading writer.
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