Edith: 1347 books

No one seems to know whether there is, or is not, a ghost in the house recently purchased by the new townspeople.  A short novella by Edith Wharton.

The best of ghost stories from Edith Wharton, including: The Bolted Door, His Father's Son, The Daunt Diana, The Debt, Full Circle, The Legend, The Eyes, The Blond Beast, Afterward, The Letters.

Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls by Edith Van Dyne.

Tuckitor Hatterask had a fierce desire to go for a swim, even though a storm was brewing and he knew it wasn't a good idea to go into the water. But the forces pulling him toward the ocean were much stronger than he ever could had imagined. In this companion short story to Spirit's Key, Edith Cohn's...

Seven short stories, including: * The Duchess at Prayer, * The Angel at the Grave, * The Recovery, * Copy: A Dialogue, * The Rembrandt, * The Moving Finger, and * The Confessional. According to Wikipedia: "Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 ? August 11, 1937) was an American...

The figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable' Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able...

In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old flame, Fanny Frisbee, now the Marquis de Malrive. Fanny...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection. Included are: "The Duchess at Prayer," "The Angel at the Grave," "The Recovery," "Copy: A Dialogue," "The Rembrandt," "The Moving Finger," and "The Confessional."

Edith Wharton, an American writer, was the first woman to get the Pulitzer Prize, for "Age of Innocence" (1920). She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. A young maid finds a new position in a spooky and lonely house. A classical and enigmatic ghost story.

Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught relationships with his "sickly, cantankerous" wife Zeena and his young, beautiful cousin Mattie Silver.

The Mary Louise Series is a collection of four novels concerned with adolescent girl detectives written under the pseudonym Edith Van Dyne. The series began with Mary Louise, originally written as a tribute to Baum's favorite sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. She is a fifteen-year-old girl with unusual...

It was Caroline’s birthday, and she had had some very pleasant presents. There was a blotting-book of blue leather (at least, it looked like leather), with pink and purple roses painted on it, from her younger sister Charlotte; and a paint-box—from her brother Charles—as good as new.

An American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts,and...