The Ghost Stories
Psychological Supernatural Fiction of Haunted Houses, Repressed Desire, and Moral Aftershock in Gilded Age SocietyBy Edith Wharton
Length14h 31m
About this audiobook
Edith Wharton's The Ghost Stories gathers tales in which supernatural disturbance becomes a precise instrument for examining memory, guilt, desire, and social confinement. Rather than relying chiefly on sensational apparitions, Wharton builds unease through implication, psychological ambiguity, and the slow violation of apparently secure domestic spaces. Her elegant, controlled prose, sharply observant dialogue, and finely calibrated narrative perspectives place these stories within the tradition of the American and European Gothic while also linking them to literary modernism's interest in subjective experience and uncertain reality. Haunted houses, uncanny encounters, and returning presences often reveal less about the dead than about the living, exposing the emotional costs of privilege, repression, and self-deception. A major American novelist, short-story writer, and cultural critic, Wharton brought to fiction an intimate knowledge of inherited wealth, rigid social codes, and the restricted opportunities available to women of her class. Her cosmopolitan life between the United States and Europe, together with her engagement with architecture, art, and wartime experience, enriched her sensitivity to spaces shaped by history and silence. The supernatural offered her a compelling means of rendering pressures that conventional realism could only indirectly express. This volume will reward readers interested in Gothic fiction, psychological realism, and the relationship between social criticism and the uncanny. It is especially recommended for those who value atmosphere, formal subtlety, and stories whose mysteries deepen rather than resolve their understanding of human behavior.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length14 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 20, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Tapestry of Home Life: 27 Domestic Fiction Books
10Mr. Jones
2The Lady’s Maid’s Bell
11Pomegranate Seed
3All Souls’
12A Bottle of Perrier
4Afterward
13The Looking-Glass
5Kerfol
14The Duchess At Prayer
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6The Eyes
15A Journey
7The Triumph of Night
16The House of the Dead Hand
8Miss Mary Pask
17The Fulness of Life
9Bewitched
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Old New York (Annotated)Edith Wharton10h 20m$2 · $0.00
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