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Edith Wharton Audio

Edith Wharton was the first woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for literature. The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and currently available for audio download, garnered her the award. As a member of New York's upper class society, Edith was able to write her novel about the morals and lifestyle of the elite from the point of view of a person living within the very circle she portrayed in the book. The plot centers around the society marriage of Newland Archer to his suitable bride May, and the love he feels for her cousin Ellen, whose status as a divorcee is a source of scandal to her family.

Edith was herself a divorcee, having left her husband after 28 years of marriage to enjoy a relationship with her partner, a journalist for The Times. One of her more popular works, Ethan Frome, which is also available on audio download, began the author's theme of writing about loveless marriages and adultery. Another one of her most famous books available on audio download is The House Of Mirth and it is considered her first great novel. This novel of manners satirically covers the New York ruling class. Edith Wharton was a complex woman and author, educated and opinionated, and her works will appeal to a wide audience of readers (and listeners!).

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Set in the 1870s, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new....

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The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.

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Eidth Wharthon and architect Odgen Codman discuss Victorian interior decoration and design. They denounce much of the Victorian practices and offer more practical and classical ways of decorating the interior of a house.

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Convention and circumstance have bound the young Ethan Frome to a wife he cannot love. Grimly resigned...

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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.

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A full-cast dramatisation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate love affair....

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Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris.

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With an unfailing eye for folly and pretentiousness, Wharton gives us four wonderful stories: 'The Eyes', 'The Daunt Diana', 'The Debt' and 'The Moving Finger'.

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Penguin Classics presents Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series....

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When young Mattie Silver arrives at her cousin Zeena Frome's farm in the New England village of...

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