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Kerfol
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2022-06-21
Kerfol written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-21 with Fiction categories.
‘Kerfol’ is one of Wharton’s more unusual ghost stories, in that the ghosts of the piece aren’t human. Chilling and tragic, this tale tells of Anne de Cornault, who is considering buying an estate in France. We discover that the estate, ‘Kerfol,’ (which translates from the Breton as ‘house of madness’) was once the scene of a murder. An atmospheric read, ‘Kerfol’ is an exploration of an unhappy marriage and revenge from beyond the grave. A perfect spine-tingler from the pen of a master storyteller. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-31
Kerfol written by Edith Wharton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-31 with categories.
"You ought to buy it," said my host; "its Just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it's going for a song--you ought to buy it." It was not with the least idea of living up to the character my friend Lanrivain ascribed to me (as a matter of fact, under my unsociable exterior I have always had secret yearnings for domesticity) that I took his hint one autumn afternoon and went to Kerfol. My friend was motoring over to Quimper on business: he dropped me on the way, at a cross-road on a heath, and said: "First turn to the right and second to the left. Then straight ahead till you see an avenue. If you meet any peasants, don't ask your way. They don't understand French, and they would pretend they did and mix you up. I'll be back for you here by sunset--and don't forget the tombs in the chapel." I followed Lanrivain's directions with the hesitation occasioned by the usual difficulty of remembering whether he had said the first turn to the right and second to the left, or the contrary. If I had met a peasant I should certainly have asked, and probably been sent astray; but I had the desert landscape to myself, and so stumbled on the right turn and walked across the heath till I came to an avenue. It was so unlike any other avenue I have ever seen that I instantly knew it must be the avenue. The grey-trunked trees sprang up straight to a great height and then interwove their pale-grey branches in a long tunnel through which the autumn light fell faintly. I know most trees by name, but I haven't to this day been able to decide what those trees were. They had the tall curve of elms, the tenuity of poplars, the ashen colour of olives under a rainy sky; and they stretched ahead of me for half a mile or more without a break in their arch. If ever I saw an avenue that unmistakably led to something, it was the avenue at Kerfol. My heart beat a little as I began to walk down it. Presently the trees ended and I came to a fortified gate in a long wall. Between me and the wall was an open space of grass, with other grey avenues radiating from it. Behind the wall were tall slate roofs mossed with silver, a chapel belfry, the top of a keep. A moat filled with wild shrubs and brambles surrounded the place; the drawbridge had been replaced by a stone arch, and the portcullis by an iron gate. I stood for a long time on the hither side of the moat, gazing about me, and letting the influence of the place sink in. I said to myself: "If I wait long enough, the guardian will turn up and show me the tombs--" and I rather hoped he wouldn't turn up too soon.
Kerfol
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-15
Kerfol written by Edith Wharton and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kerfol" (1916) by Edith Wharton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Tark Classic Fiction
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Kerfol written by Edith Wharton and has been published by Tark Classic Fiction this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
I left my light burning all night, as he had predicted; but it was chiefly because, till near dawn, I was absorbed in my reading. The account of the trial of Anne de Cornault, wife of the lord of Kerfol, was long and closely printed. It was, as my friend had said, probably an almost literal transcription of what took place in the court-room; and the trial lasted nearly a month. Besides, the type of the book was detestable.
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-21
Kerfol written by Edith Wharton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-21 with categories.
You ought to buy it," said my host; "its Just the place for a solitaryminded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own themost romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it's going for a song-you ought to buy it."It was not with the least idea of living up to the character my friendLanrivain ascribed to me (as a matter of fact, under my unsociableexterior I have always had secret yearnings for domesticity) that I tookhis hint one autumn afternoon and went to Kerfol. My friend wasmotoring over to Quimper on business: he dropped me on the way, at across-road on a heath, and said: "First turn to the right and second tothe left. Then straight ahead till you see an avenue. If you meet anypeasants, don't ask your way. They don't understand French, and theywould pretend they did and mix you up. I'll be back for you here bysunset-and don't forget the tombs in the chapel.
Kerfol
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-02-10
Kerfol written by Edith Wharton and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-10 with Fiction categories.
"[...]unhappy, though one servant-woman said she had surprised her crying, and had heard her say that she was a woman accursed to have no child, and nothing in life to call her own. But that was a natural enough feeling in a wife attached to her husband; and certainly it must have been a great grief to Yves de Cornault that she bore no son. Yet he never made her feel her childlessness as a reproach—she admits this in her evidence—but seemed to try to make her forget it by showering gifts and favours on her. Rich though he was, he had never been openhanded; but nothing was too fine for his wife, in the way of silks or gems or linen, or[...]".
The Ghosts Of Kerfol
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Author : Deborah Noyes
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2013-07-09
The Ghosts Of Kerfol written by Deborah Noyes and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-09 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, an Edith Wharton story inspires five connected tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries. (Age 14 and up) In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband, the jealous Yves de Cornault. The elderly lord was found dead on the stairs, apparently savaged by a pack of dogs, though there were no dogs -- no live dogs -- at Kerfol that day. In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl. Four more tales slip forward in time, peering in on a young artist, a hard-drinking party girl, a young American couple, and a deaf gardener who now tends the Kerfol estate. All these souls are haunted by the ghosts of Kerfol -- the dead dogs, the sensual yet uneasy relationships, and the bitter taste of revenge.
Kerfol Ebook Nc Digital Library
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Author : Edith Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Kerfol Ebook Nc Digital Library written by Edith Wharton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Scare Tactics
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Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2009-08-25
Scare Tactics written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary tradition, but who are not recognized today for their contributions. Between the end of the Civil War and roughly 1930, hundreds of uncanny tales were published by women in the periodical press and in books. These include stories by familiar figures such as Edith Wharton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as by authors almost wholly unknown to twenty-first-century readers, such as Josephine Dodge Bacon, Alice Brown, Emma Frances Dawson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford. Focusing on this tradition of female writing offers a corrective to the prevailing belief within American literary scholarship that the uncanny tale, exemplified by the literary productions of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, was displaced after the Civil War by literary realism. Beyond the simple existence of an unacknowledged tradition of uncanny literature by women, Scare Tactics makes a strong case that this body of literature should be read as a specifically feminist literary tradition. Especially intriguing, Weinstock demonstrates, is that women authors repeatedly used Gothic conventions to express discontentment with circumscribed roles for women creating types of political intervention connected to the broader sphere of women's rights activism. Paying attention to these overlooked authors helps us better understand not only the literary marketplace of their time, but also more familiar American Gothicists from Edgar Allan Poe to Shirley Jackson to Stephen King.
Kerfol
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Author : Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Kerfol written by Edith Newbold Jones Wharton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literatura norteamericana categories.