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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

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 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)Copyright Audiobooks by Librivox Art
Episodes
  • The Dilettante

    The Dilettante
    Jan 14 2026
    24 mins
  • The Bolted Door, Part VI

    The Bolted Door, Part VI
    Jan 14 2026
    15 mins
  • The Bolted Door, Part III

    The Bolted Door, Part III
    Jan 14 2026
    23 mins
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