Afterward
By: by Edith Wharton
Publisher: Dodo Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: U.K.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9781409915409
Subjects: Ghost stories; American Short stories
Description: "Afterward is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the 1910 edition of The Century Magazine. and later reprinted in her books The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton and Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910). It is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters long after a business transgression where the character wronged another"--Barnesandnoble.com.

A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappears shortly after this eerie encounter, the wife learns the truth about the legend that haunts the ancient estate.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Century Magazine, Jan. 1910.