The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 03/08/2022 A novel from "one of

A novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world” (The New York Times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence

humans have colonized a distant planet

and a Hindu mathematician-coped with an unfolding environmental disaster: the rapid desertification of their land

a young adventurer turns to a newborn dragon to save her home

and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 03/08/2022 A novel from "one ofAuthor Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith Publisher: Scribner Book Company Date: 10 10 1997 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine tingling collection, till I was twenty seven or eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a ghost story. Once her fear was overcome,