Edith Wharton

Bewitched (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In the desolate quiet of the New England mountains, the supernatural is nothing compared to the power of human desire.

Lichen, a farmer in a remote corner of the Berkshires, is a man tormented. His aging, sickly wife, Mrs. Rutledge, believes she's being poisoned by a phantom rival: a dead woman named Ora.

But the phantom is all too real.

Lichen has fallen into a terrifying, consuming passion with the alluring ghost of his deceased neighbor, Ora Brand. Every night, he leaves the bedside of his living, suffering wife to keep a secret, spectral rendezvous on the frozen mountain.

As Mrs. Rutledge's health fades and the neighbors whisper about witchcraft, the local lawyer, Saul Rutledge, is drawn into the mystery. He discovers that the real horror isn't the supernatural haunting, but the emotional truth behind it: a desperate man, a dying woman, and a love that exists only in the mind.

Edith Wharton delivers a masterful study in atmosphere and psychological horror, turning the classic ghost story into a bleak and devastating examination of isolation, guilt, and the dark landscape of rural despair. This is a haunting tale where the human heart proves far more cruel than any spirit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read Books Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 31
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781528786607
• Artikelnr.: 55261143

Autorenporträt

Edith Wharton (1862 1937) was an American author and literary luminary of the early twentieth century. Known for her keen social observations and penetrating insights into the complexities of human nature, Wharton explored themes of love, marriage, and class. Her novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence , delved into the lives of the privileged elite, examining the intricate web of social customs and conventions that governed their existence.