Edith Wharton

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War & Military Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Son At The Front

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 Pulitzer prize for literature before this novel was written. Edith Wharton is...

Beth Thomas and 6 more 10 hours 50 minutes

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Romance

750

Edith Wharton - Long Run

A wealthy bachelor businessman looks back on the romance that he fumbled with a beautiful married woman he and his college buddy both had crushes on when younger. ( Matt Pierard)

VfkaBT 1 hour 16 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Valley of Decision

Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the free-thinking...

Robert Keiper 16 hours 51 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Edith Wharton - House of Mirth (Version 3)

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 mutual respect and love. She sabotages all her possible opportunities for a...

Jan Moorehouse 12 hours 55 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country (version 2)

Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 15 minutes

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Literary Fiction

912

Edith Wharton - Sanctuary (version 2)

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 terrible secret. — Summary by Elizabeth Klett

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 51 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts

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 last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 34 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Descent of Man and Other Stories

This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Marne: a tale of the war

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 lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work....

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 56 minutes

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General Fiction

701

Edith Wharton - Touchstone

Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain....

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 40 minutes

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Romance

753

Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence (version 2)

Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds...

Elizabeth Klett 9 hours 57 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome (version 2)

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 Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, where an unnamed narrator tells the...

Bob Neufeld 4 hours

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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