Kerfol

By Edith Wharton

This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Kerfol' is a ghost story set in a decaying French Chateau in Brittany whose owners are keen to sell for "a song". Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner's Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her many short stories, titled 'Mrs. Manstey's View'. Over the next four decades, they - along with other well-established American publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Harper's and Lippincott's - regularly published her work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: White Press
• Release date: Apr 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9781473361065

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.