Mr. Jones (Annotated)

Edith Wharton's "Mr. Jones" is a finely controlled supernatural tale in which an inherited English country house becomes the stage for a drama of secrecy, class authority, and psychological unease. Written in Wharton's elegant, incisive prose, the story adapts the Gothic ghost tradition to the world of manners: its terror lies less in spectacle than in atmosphere, implication, and the oppressive e...