Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door,” “The Dilettante,” and “The House of the Dead Hand.”
With one possible exception (“The Dilettante”), these early stories are dark tales about ghosts (canine and human), dark deeds of the past and present and how they haunt their perpetrators and victims, and narrators/central characters with a fierce determination to pursue their hearts’ desires at all costs.
Even the one exception, which seems more like Wharton’s later tales of the complicated relationships between men and women, is haunted by the ghost of the past. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann)
With one possible exception (“The Dilettante”), these early stories are dark tales about ghosts (canine and human), dark deeds of the past and present and how they haunt their perpetrators and victims, and narrators/central characters with a fierce determination to pursue their hearts’ desires at all costs.
Even the one exception, which seems more like Wharton’s later tales of the complicated relationships between men and women, is haunted by the ghost of the past. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Kerfol, Part I
18:30 - Chapter 2
Kerfol, Part II
02:06 - Chapter 3
Kerfol, Part III
38:20 - Chapter 4
Mrs. Manstey’s View
27:11 - Chapter 5
The Bolted Door, Part I
18:25 - Chapter 6
The Bolted Door, Part II
18:06 - Chapter 7
The Bolted Door, Part III
23:00 - Chapter 8
The Bolted Door, Part IV
07:29 - Chapter 9
The Bolted Door, Part V
12:28 - Chapter 10
The Bolted Door, Part VI
15:00 - Chapter 11
The Bolted Door, Part VII
06:57 - Chapter 12
The Dilettante
23:56 - Chapter 13
The House of the Dead Hand, Part I
32:09 - Chapter 14
The House of the Dead Hand, Part II
13:33 - Chapter 15
The House of the Dead Hand, Part III
13:10 - Chapter 16
The House of the Dead Hand, Part IV
09:53