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""The Eyes"" details an aging American gentleman named Andrew Culwin, recounting his experiences with the supernatural to two guests late in the evening. After settling in to spend the winter with his aunt in New York, Culwin starts to build a relationship with his cousin, Alice Nowell, leading to a sexual encounter. After this encounter, they become engaged and he promises to bring her with him to Europe very soon. That night, he finds himself watched by a pair of supernatural eyes that fill him with immense fear. The next morning, he flees the house and spends the next evening elsewhere, and the eyes do not reappear. He decides to move to Europe for multiple years, leaving Alice behind. He lives happily in Europe for many years, without seeing the eyes. As he is working on writing a book, a young man named Gilbert Noyes visits him, having been sent from New York by Alice. She requests that Culwin help Gilbert improve his literary skills and become successful, yet Culwin quickly notices that he has little talent. He later sees the eyes again when he decides to encourage Gilbert Noyes. He is scared he will lose Gilbert and disappoint his cousin Alice one again if Gilbert fails. The eyes appear every night until Culwin informs Noyes of the truth during a falling out. At the end of this recounting, he looks into the mirror, seeing the eyes once again.

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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the author of several novels, including The Age of Innocence and Old New York, both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the first woman to receive that honor. In 1929 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. She was born in New York and is best known for her stories of life among the upper-class society into which she was born. She was educated privately at home and in Europe. In 1894 she began writing fiction, and her novel The House of Mirth established her as a leading writer.

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