Afterward

Written by Edith Wharton

Narrated by B. J. Harrison

A couple looks for a new home in southern England – but it has to be haunted. They stay in the legendary house of Lyng, where it is said that the inhabitants don’t know that they’ve encountered the ghost until long afterward.

Artfully crafted in five different parts, Wharton spins an ironic story of greed, guilt, and revenge. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: B.J. Harrison
• Release date: Feb 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9781957934327

Edith Wharton

EDITH WHARTON (1862 - 1937) was a unique and prolific voice in the American literary canon. With her distinct sense of humor and knowledge of New York’s upper-class society, Wharton was best known for novels that detailed the lives of the elite including: The House of Mirth, The Custom of Country, and The Age of Innocence. She was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and one of four women whose election to the Academy of Arts and Letters broke the barrier for the next generation of women writers.

Reviews for Afterward

[maydacat_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Atmospheric and appropriately eerie, this story will give you the shivers. An American couple are seeking a retirement country house. The husband wants to have a ghost in his home, and this, I believe, falls into the category of “be careful what you wish for because you may get it.” It’s a classic Victorian ghost by the wonderful Edith Wharton.

[la2bkk · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The central theme of the work is interesting - the mounting of tension as a wife discovers and gradually learns more re a lawsuit against her husband arising from money gained from a mining investment. (No small matter as the earnings formed the basis for the couple's early retirement to a remote English villa).However, I personally did not find the ghost aspects of the story either particularly interesting or unsettling.