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A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author

The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Perhaps predictably, she married into another prosperous family when she became the wife of Bostonian, 'Teddy' Wharton in 1883. Edith's wealth opened the world to her and she became a prodigious traveller and lived...

A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author

The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Perhaps predictably, she married into another prosperous family when she became the wife of Bostonian, 'Teddy' Wharton in 1883. Edith's wealth opened the world to her and she became a prodigious traveller and lived...

Volume two of Edith Wharton's excursions into the chilling and other worldly

The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Perhaps predictably, she married into another prosperous family when she became the wife of Bostonian, 'Teddy' Wharton in 1883. Edith's wealth opened the world to her and she became a prodigious traveller and lived for...

Volume two of Edith Wharton's excursions into the chilling and other worldly

The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Perhaps predictably, she married into another prosperous family when she became the wife of Bostonian, 'Teddy' Wharton in 1883. Edith's wealth opened the world to her and she became a prodigious traveller and lived for...

^{The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals}

^{During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian...}

^{The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals}

^{During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian...}