Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in ric…
The Age of Innocence
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Edith Wharton
In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolut…
The Age of Innocence (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer …
Ethan Frome
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield,…
The Glimpses of the Moon
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off weal…
Summer (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…
The Touchstone
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an adv…
The Custom of the Country (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…
Madame de Treymes
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old…
Sanctuary (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a t…
Ethan Frome (version 2)
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Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of St…
Crucial Instances
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…
Summer
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Edith Wharton
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity …
The Greater Inclination
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…
Tales of Men and Ghosts
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Edith Wharton
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and …
The Decoration of Houses
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Edith Wharton
The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In …
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Edith Wharton
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtshi…
The Fruit of the Tree
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Edith Wharton
When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due t…
Bunner Sisters
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Edith Wharton
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…
Afterward
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Edith Wharton
Mary and Ned Boyne have fled their dreary life in Wisconsin for a home in rustic Dorsetshire. But you can only run so far, and some things -…
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…
The Reef
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Edith Wharton
George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, A…
The Marne: a tale of the war
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She li…
Sanctuary
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Edith Wharton
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…
The House of Mirth (Version 3)
Read by Jan Moorehouse
Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mut…
The Custom of the Country
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…
The Valley of Decision
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Edith Wharton
Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politic…
The House of Mirth (Version 2)
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Edith Wharton
Wharton's classic story of an aging (by Victorian-era standards) spinster socialite who would rather marry for money than for true love. (Su…
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading)
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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presenc…
Old New York
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Edith Wharton
Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas (False Dawn; The Old Maid; The Spark; New Year's Day) by Edith Wharton, revolving arou…
The Mother's Recompense
Read by Anne Fletcher
Edith Wharton
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …
A Son At The Front
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Edith Wharton
This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulit…
The Long Run
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Edith Wharton
A wealthy bachelor businessman looks back on the romance that he fumbled with a beautiful married woman he and his college buddy both had cr…
The Writing of Fiction
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, a successful author of fiction herself, gives us some in-depth analysis of the writing of short stories and novels. Then she …
Twilight Sleep
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Edith Wharton
Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Edith Wharton
Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One
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Edith Wharton
Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door…