Edith Wharton audiobooks
Ethan Frome
by Edith WhartonEdith Wharton's tragic novel Ethan Frome narrates the triangle romance of Ethan, his sick wife Zeena and her cousin Mattie. Unhealthy Zeena brings her cousin Mattie to take care of her in home. With poverty ruling his life, Ethan is obsessed with young Mattie who does not stop him advancing towards her. Knowing their affair Zeena plans to replace h..
The Age of Innocence
by Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence is a romantic novel by Edith Wharton, which explores the conflict between Old Aristocratic society and the new growing Generous society. The betrothel of Newland Archer and May Welland is at stack with the arrival of Welland's cousin Ellen Olenska . Ellen's ignorance of Old Aristocratic customs and her inncocence impressed Newl..
Afterward
by Edith Wharton"Afterward" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the 1910 edition of The Century Magazine. and later reprinted in her books The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton and Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910). It is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters l..
Custom of the Country
by Edith WhartonThe Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their be..
Bunner Sisters
by Edith Wharton"Bunner Sisters," written in 1892 but not published until 1916 in Xingu and Other Stories, takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers and small handsewn articles to Stuyvesant Square's "female population."Ann Eliza gives Ev..
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
by Edith WhartonFighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort is composed, in part, from magazine articles by the American writer Edith Wharton on her time in France during the First World War, including her visits to the French sectors of the Western Front. "Four of the articles originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine" in 1915...
Crucial Instances
by Edith WhartonCrucial Instances is Edith Wharton's classic 1901 short story collection. The book contains a collection of seven stories, including:The Duchess at PrayerThe Angel at the GraveThe RecoveryCopy: A DialogueThe RembrandtThe Moving FingerThe Confessional..
Descent of Man and Other Stories
by Edith WhartonThis collection appeared in book form in two distinct editions, both published in 1904. The Macmillian edition had ten stories; the Scribner's edition had nine (omitting "The Letter"). The two collections also ordered the stories differently; below I use the ordering of the larger Macmillan edition. The links below go to on-line illustrated edition..