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The Triumph of Night and Other Tales
Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in yellow wibalin cloth stamped in copper, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands.
300 copies.
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.'
300 copies.
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.'
310 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1927
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About the author
Edith Wharton
1,500 books5,343 followersEdith Wharton emerged as one of America’s most insightful novelists, deftly exposing the tensions between societal expectation and personal desire through her vivid portrayals of upper-class life. Drawing from her deep familiarity with New York’s privileged “aristocracy,” she offered readers a keenly observed and piercingly honest vision of Gilded Age society.
Her work reached a milestone when she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded for The Age of Innocence. This novel highlights the constraining rituals of 1870s New York society and remains a defining portrait of elegance laced with regret.
Wharton’s literary achievements span a wide canvas. The House of Mirth presents a tragic, vividly drawn character study of Lily Bart, navigating social expectations and the perils of genteel poverty in 1890s New York. In Ethan Frome, she explores rural hardship and emotional repression, contrasting sharply with her urban social dramas.
Her novella collection Old New York revisits the moral terrain of upper-class society, spanning decades and combining character studies with social commentary. Through these stories, she inevitably points back to themes and settings familiar from The Age of Innocence. Continuing her exploration of class and desire, The Glimpses of the Moon addresses marriage and social mobility in early 20th-century America. And in Summer, Wharton challenges societal norms with its rural setting and themes of sexual awakening and social inequality.
Beyond fiction, Wharton contributed compelling nonfiction and travel writing. The Decoration of Houses reflects her eye for design and architecture; Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort presents a compelling account of her wartime observations. As editor of The Book of the Homeless, she curated a moving, international collaboration in support of war refugees.
Wharton’s influence extended beyond writing. She designed her own country estate, The Mount, a testament to her architectural sensibility and aesthetic vision. The Mount now stands as an educational museum celebrating her legacy.
Throughout her career, Wharton maintained friendships and artistic exchanges with luminaries such as Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Theodore Roosevelt—reflecting her status as a respected and connected cultural figure.
Her literary legacy also includes multiple Nobel Prize nominations, underscoring her international recognition. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature more than once.
In sum, Edith Wharton remains celebrated for her unflinching, elegant prose, her psychological acuity, and her capacity to illuminate the unspoken constraints of society—from the glittering ballrooms of New York to quieter, more remote settings. Her wide-ranging work—novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, travel writing, essays—offers cultural insight, enduring emotional depth, and a piercing critique of the customs she both inhabited and dissected.
Her work reached a milestone when she became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, awarded for The Age of Innocence. This novel highlights the constraining rituals of 1870s New York society and remains a defining portrait of elegance laced with regret.
Wharton’s literary achievements span a wide canvas. The House of Mirth presents a tragic, vividly drawn character study of Lily Bart, navigating social expectations and the perils of genteel poverty in 1890s New York. In Ethan Frome, she explores rural hardship and emotional repression, contrasting sharply with her urban social dramas.
Her novella collection Old New York revisits the moral terrain of upper-class society, spanning decades and combining character studies with social commentary. Through these stories, she inevitably points back to themes and settings familiar from The Age of Innocence. Continuing her exploration of class and desire, The Glimpses of the Moon addresses marriage and social mobility in early 20th-century America. And in Summer, Wharton challenges societal norms with its rural setting and themes of sexual awakening and social inequality.
Beyond fiction, Wharton contributed compelling nonfiction and travel writing. The Decoration of Houses reflects her eye for design and architecture; Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort presents a compelling account of her wartime observations. As editor of The Book of the Homeless, she curated a moving, international collaboration in support of war refugees.
Wharton’s influence extended beyond writing. She designed her own country estate, The Mount, a testament to her architectural sensibility and aesthetic vision. The Mount now stands as an educational museum celebrating her legacy.
Throughout her career, Wharton maintained friendships and artistic exchanges with luminaries such as Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Theodore Roosevelt—reflecting her status as a respected and connected cultural figure.
Her literary legacy also includes multiple Nobel Prize nominations, underscoring her international recognition. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature more than once.
In sum, Edith Wharton remains celebrated for her unflinching, elegant prose, her psychological acuity, and her capacity to illuminate the unspoken constraints of society—from the glittering ballrooms of New York to quieter, more remote settings. Her wide-ranging work—novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, travel writing, essays—offers cultural insight, enduring emotional depth, and a piercing critique of the customs she both inhabited and dissected.
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July 24, 2017
La especialidad de Wharton está en mostrar cómo evoluciona la forma de ser y pensar de sus personajes. Esta colección de cuentos es una gran muestra de ello, en donde los protagonistas (en su mayoría mujeres) a lo largo de los años van cambiando su posición respecto al avance de los tiempos o, por el contrario, el mismo avance de los tiempos provoca cambios en ellos, cambios usualmente inesperados en aquellos que no les veían en mucho tiempo. Los dos primeros cuentos son de un tinte más sobrenatural, y si bien son bastante interesantes, los mejores cuentos son los siguientes, los que lidian con la sociedad contemporánea de la autora y los cambios bruscos que estaban ocurriendo. Adicionalmente, hay un cierto despliegue de humor en la narrativa que le saca una sonrisa al lector incluso en los momentos de más angustia.
August 6, 2014
Edith Wharton is best known for her novels about life in high society in New York City during the Gilded Age. She was also a prolific writer of short stories and many of them are ghost stories as we find here in this collection. They weren't so much about ghosts as they were about characters walking the fine line between sanity and madness. Triumph of Night is not the best of her work in this genre, but it is written with the style that is unmistakably Edith Wharton's and so easy to read.
September 1, 2023
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Delicious, turn of the previous century, collection of supernatural tales.
Some tales such as “The Lady's Maid's Bell” probably worked better with an earlier generation, those who did “see things.” This was evocative, though by no means unsettling.
Wharton has a wonderful eye and ear for class, especially an educated class, one step ahead of poverty.
The title story trails a poor soul, invited by a forgetful matron, alone in freezing winter.
A chance encounter brings him to the opulent manor, where he, and he alone, glimpses the shade.
“A Bottle Of Perrier,” set in the desert, is altogether different. The oppressive heat lulls a stranded wayfarer, despite his mounting unease.
“Pomegranate Seed” unwraps a series of small grey envelopes, causing pain for one spouse, sparking suspicion in another.
The witching hour, while the world slumbers, the house empties of life, and provides a sleepless
resident a disturbing tour in “All Souls.”
A collection of ghosts, to be sure, thought they are half glimpsed, in keeping with an era that denied wraiths, but tensed, nonetheless, when salt spilled.
Delicious, turn of the previous century, collection of supernatural tales.
Some tales such as “The Lady's Maid's Bell” probably worked better with an earlier generation, those who did “see things.” This was evocative, though by no means unsettling.
Wharton has a wonderful eye and ear for class, especially an educated class, one step ahead of poverty.
The title story trails a poor soul, invited by a forgetful matron, alone in freezing winter.
A chance encounter brings him to the opulent manor, where he, and he alone, glimpses the shade.
“A Bottle Of Perrier,” set in the desert, is altogether different. The oppressive heat lulls a stranded wayfarer, despite his mounting unease.
“Pomegranate Seed” unwraps a series of small grey envelopes, causing pain for one spouse, sparking suspicion in another.
The witching hour, while the world slumbers, the house empties of life, and provides a sleepless
resident a disturbing tour in “All Souls.”
A collection of ghosts, to be sure, thought they are half glimpsed, in keeping with an era that denied wraiths, but tensed, nonetheless, when salt spilled.
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October 8, 2021Leí "Otros tiempos" (4/5): me encantó y ahora quiero leer el resto del libro.
October 24, 2023
Superb 'weird' tales.
July 3, 2009
I didn't find this particular ghost story as engaging as Wharton's others. Pedestrian and dull as it was, I found myself, for the first time in the collection, counting how many pages left, and wanting to skim paragraphs impatiently for content; indeed, wanting to abandon the story completely, and leave it unfinished.
The concept is unoriginal, though competently if boringly told; the ending is pat and, well, sermonistic.
The concept is unoriginal, though competently if boringly told; the ending is pat and, well, sermonistic.
June 23, 2019
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Libro de cuentos de los más diversos temas. Algunos apuntan al misterio y lo paranormal, y otros son de crítica social, más cercanos al estilo de "La edad de la inocencia". Personalmente prefiero estos últimos, aunque el nivel en general es bastante bueno.
Libro de cuentos de los más diversos temas. Algunos apuntan al misterio y lo paranormal, y otros son de crítica social, más cercanos al estilo de "La edad de la inocencia". Personalmente prefiero estos últimos, aunque el nivel en general es bastante bueno.
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews