SOME OF MY FAVORITE STORIES are stories of houses. "The Spoils of Poynton," about a house full of beloved antiquities. "Rebecca," about a house haunted by a first wife. Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt": a house that takes over parenting.
I love James Lees-Milne's stories of National Trust houses, postwar stories of houses built on dynasties and coming apart. Then there is the special house, the one built on love, for a muse, a mistress, an adored spouse. In Virginia Woolf's brief masterpiece "A Haunted House," the ghosts are content, the walls of the house thrumming with whispers of peace, a happy marriage.
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