Edith Wharton's only unpublished work is published for the first time in Spanish

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Belonging to the author's "dark years" when she did not yet consider herself a novelist it prefigures some of the themes of several of her most important novels such as The House of Joy or The Fruit of the Tree . Under the translation of Nadia Khalil Tolosa the edition of this work represents a literary success.

Edith Wharton book coverThe poet and critic Luis Alberto de Cuenca points out that "the appearance of this piece unknown until today constitutes a literary event."

The Madrid label Huso Editorial publishes this work thanks to the research of Jorge Freire Wharton biographer.

John Derwent has married Kate Tredennis a nurse and best friend of his wife Agnes who died after suffering a terrible accident. Kate is a model wife and an exemplary stepmother to Sylvia daughter of John and Agnes. But Lord Osterleigh Agnes's CXB Directory wealthy father disapproves of his son-in-law's quickness to remarry and begins to have doubts about Kate herself. Everything gets complicated when the dark doctor Carruther tries to extort her for a dark secret. Kate is nothing more than a noble nurse in the middle of a world of suspicion and puritanism. Will she be able to resist the attacks of high society when it makes her the object of their evil tongues?



The manuscript of Shadow of a Doubt dated belongs to Wharton's “dark years”

The manuscript of Shadow of a Doubt dated belongs to Wharton's “dark years.” He was thirty-nine years old at that time. He had only published stories and poems so he did not consider himself a novelist. In fact until the publication of his first novel The Valley of Decision everything indicates that Wharton devoted most of his efforts to building a career as a playwright.

Jorge Freire writer and biographer of Edith Wharton points out in the prologue that The Shadow of a Doubt has elements that will be familiar to Wharton readers. There is blackmail extortion and burning of letters philistinism misogyny and sorority among lower-class women largely anticipating The House of Joy... It also incorporates reflections on the professionalization of women that refer to A Rural Doctor . by Sarah Orne Jewett and anticipate Virginia by Ellen Glasgow while advancing ideas that would lead to Wharton's novel The fruit of the tree . This very controversial novel takes the framework of its plot and the underlying theme from The Shadow of a Doubt : euthanasia.