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Lädt ... Ghosts (Original 1937; 2021. Auflage)von Edith Wharton (Autor)
Werk-InformationenGhosts von Edith Wharton (1937)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 4.5/5 Wharton's criterion for a good ghost story was the following: “If it sends a cold shiver down one‘s spine, it has done its job and done it well“ (The New Yorker). I couldn't agree more. Her gorgeous writing also built up the suspense, which kept me turning those pages. Most of her endings were ambiguous--like perhaps the amorphous idea of a ghost itself. All were Gothic but also representative of the 20th-century psychological approach to horror. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton's most dedicated admirers are unaware that she was a master of the form. In fact, one of Wharton's final literary acts was assembling Ghosts, a personal selection of her own most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937. In "The Lady's Maid's Bell," the earliest tale included here, a servant's dedication to her mistress continues from beyond the grave, and in "All Souls," the last story Wharton wrote, an elderly woman treads the permeable line between life and the hereafter. In all her writing, Wharton's great gift was to mercilessly illuminate the motives of men and women, and her ghost stories never stray far from the preoccupations of the living, using the supernatural to investigate such worldly matters as violence within marriage, the horrors of aging, the rot at the root of new fortunes, the darkness that stares back from the abyss of one's own soul. These are stories to "send a cold shiver down one's spine," not to terrify, and as Wharton explains her in her preface, her goal in writing them was to counter "the hard grind of modern speeding-up" by preserving that ineffable space of "silence and continuity" which is not merely the prerogative of humanity, but--"in the fun of the shudder"--its delight"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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OPD: 1937
format: 253-page Nook ebook
acquired: October 2 read: Oct 9-27 time reading: 10:37, 2.5 mpp
rating: 4
genre/style: short stories theme: Wharton
locations: New York, Dorset, Kent, other places in Europe,
about the author: 1862-1937. Born Edith Newbold Jones on West 23rd Street, New York City. Relocated permanently to France after 1911.
I don't want to leave the wrong impression. Wharton was a lovely writer, with vivid characters, and a sense of place, especially opulent places. That is all here, making this a nice little collection. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's not, mind you, a collection of amazing, or of particularly haunting stories.
Each story, well except maybe one, but mostly each story drew me in, and had me curious, and sometime tensely turning pages. And then each finished in a way that was little unsatisfying. But yet, even knowing this, I would happily hop into the next story.
This is recommended for anyone who wants a light fun sample of Wharton's writing.
2023
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