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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)
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Horror & Supernatural Fiction
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Edith Wharton - Afterward
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 — some secret things — may follow you. A creepy and tragic ghost story from...
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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
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General Fiction
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Edith Wharton - Madame de Treymes
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 flame, Fanny Frisbee, now the Marquis de Malrive. Fanny is separated from her...
Elizabeth Klett
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General Fiction
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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
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Literary Fiction
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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
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General Fiction
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Edith Wharton - Sanctuary
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to...
Jacquerie
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General Fiction
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Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught...
Elizabeth Klett
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Essays & Short Works
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Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France...
Elizabeth Klett
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Literary Fiction
400
Edith Wharton - Bunner Sisters
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a «very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a...
Margaret Espaillat
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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
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General Fiction
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Edith Wharton - Crucial Instances
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, «Copy: A Dialogue,» is written as a short play. The role of Hilda is read by Arielle Lipshaw, and the role of...
Elizabeth Klett
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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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