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Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One

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) (4 hr 40 min)

Chapters

Kerfol, Part I

18:30

Kerfol, Part II

2:06

Kerfol, Part III

38:20

Mrs. Manstey’s View

27:11

The Bolted Door, Part I

18:25

The Bolted Door, Part II

18:06

The Bolted Door, Part III

23:00

The Bolted Door, Part IV

7:29

The Bolted Door, Part V

12:28

The Bolted Door, Part VI

15:00

The Bolted Door, Part VII

6:57

The Dilettante

23:56

The House of the Dead Hand, Part I

32:09

The House of the Dead Hand, Part II

13:33

The House of the Dead Hand, Part III

13:10

The House of the Dead Hand, Part IV

9:53