false 2305 10 "'No, I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them,' is much more than the cheap paradox it seems to many. To 'believe,' in that sense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warm darkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason that the faculty dwells with which we apprehend ghosts." Edith Wharton, known for her keen observations of an emotionally stifling upper-class social world, was so afraid of ghosts that for many years she couldn't even sleep in a room with a book containing a ghost story. As horror scholar Jack Sullivan writes, "It is this sharply felt sensation of supernatural dread filtered through a skeptical sensibility that made Wharton a master of the ghost story." This collection contains 11 of her elegant, chilling tales, including "Afterword," "The Triumph of Night," and "Pomegranate Seed," plus Wharton's 1937 preface and an autobiographical postscript. 6321 10 10 1973 The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton total:296|5:65|4:109|3:101|2:19|1:2| 296 1104 528 41 2305 0684842572 9780684842578 290 40 3.73 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1160891016m/2305.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2305.The_Ghost_Stories_of_Edith_Wharton 5 2 false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Wed Aug 01 14:27:10 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 29 09:13:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2305 0684842572 9780684842578 290 40 3.73 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1160891016m/2305.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2305.The_Ghost_Stories_of_Edith_Wharton 5 1 false Thu Oct 16 09:47:11 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 17:42:47 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 09:47:11 -0700 2008 2
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