Afterward
Written by Edith Wharton
Narrated by B. J. Harrison
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
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.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
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Reviews for Afterward
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Atmospheric 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 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.