{"product_id":"the-ghost-stories-of-edith-wharton-9780349009674","title":"The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton","description":"In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient cruelties, Dorset witnesses a retrospective haunting and a New York club cushions an elderly aesthete as he tells of the ghastly eyes haunting his nights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York, and later lived in Rhode Island and France. Her first novel, T\u003ci\u003ehe Valley of Decision\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1902, and by 1913 she was writing at least one book a year. During the First World War she was awarded the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur and the Order of Leopold. In 1920, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize; she was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and in 1930 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters. She died in 1937.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Virago Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626125824274,"sku":"9780349009674","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb3a40a7-bae5-467b-ae85-1e38f1bd7040.jpg?v=1758635489","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ghost-stories-of-edith-wharton-9780349009674","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}