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“Pomegranate Seed” is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. This story was first published by The Saturday Evening Post on April 25, 1931. The story was then included in Wharton's collection of short fiction, The World Over in 1936, and in her collection, Ghosts, published in 1937.
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"Pomegranate Seed". Edith Wharton, The Saturday Evening Post, April 25 ’31 (begins page 315) "Lukundoo" 1907 Edward Lucas White, Weird Tales, November ’25 (begins page 336) "The Donguys". Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (begins page 346) "Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime". Oscar Wilde, Court and Society Review, May 11, 1887 (begins page 353)
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The spirit of a 17-year-old boy that died 120 years ago stands on the stairs of a church in Pasadena, California, waiting for 17-year-old Catherine, who is spending Christmas with her grandmother while her parents are traveling in Europe.
The repetition of pomegranate imagery in the story is used to reflect temptation, luxury and threat as the places the soul travels to: the Street of Pomegranates and the garden of pomegranates. The soul's drinking of the pomegranate juices parallels Persphone's consumption of the seeds and also "serves as a signal that the places through which ...
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