Pomegranate Seed and Other Ghostly Tales

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Known for writing some of the most incisive and elegant novels of the early twentieth century, Edith Wharton was also a master practitioner of the ghost story, producing dozens of frightful fictions throughout her lifetime. Combining pristine prose with strange, suffocating atmospheres and a profound sense of the uncanny,
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Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.

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• Autori: Edith Wharton
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.10.2025
• EAN: 9781405986144
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-8614-4
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Penguin Horror
• Categorie: Narrativa > Gialli > Horror; Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Classics, Horror & ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories, FICTION / Horror / General