Edith Wharton

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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 1 hour 57 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Summer (version 2)

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 to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 41 minutes

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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 5 hours 6 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Greater Inclination

This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nature and purpose of...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 7 minutes

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Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

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 3 hours 20 minutes

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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 3 hours 7 minutes

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Edith Wharton - House of Mirth (Version 2)

Wharton's classic story of an aging (by Victorian-era standards) spinster socialite who would rather marry for money than for true love.(Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 14 hours 8 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Fruit of the Tree

When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mercy killing, divorce and second marriages....

Margaret Espaillat 15 hours 35 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Reef

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, Anna’s daughter’s naïve and young governess. Sophy’s relationship with Darrow...

Elli and 8 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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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 3 hours 24 minutes

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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 3 hours 12 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Glimpses of the Moon

«The Glimpses of the Moon» (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an «open» relationship, but are...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 47 minutes

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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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