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Deaver Brown
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Edith Wharton
About this listen
The novel is about New York City society in its best years through the life of a beautiful girl who is an outside insider with a foot in and several feet outside the inner circle.
Edith Wharton was a great early 20th Century writer who captured American social & society norms, especially in the upper classes.
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The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust.
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Background interference.
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- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett, Amanda Friday, Ted Wenskus, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Set in early 20th century New York, Edith Wharton's classic novel follows the changing fortunes of the beautiful Lily Bart, an impoverished socialite who relies on the kindness of rich friends to move in glamorous society. Lily and all her friends know that she must make a rich marriage to achieve financial security, but she is drawn to kindred spirit Lawrence Selden, a charming but decidedly middle-class lawyer. Will Lily survive in a world of predatory financiers and their ruthless wives?
-
-
House of Mirth
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By: Edith Wharton
-
The House of Mirth
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Anne Makoto
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Lily Bart, impoverished though she was born into New York City's high society in the 19th century, was raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically. As she approaches the age of 29, her marital prospects become limited, and she descends on a two-year social slide from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.
By: Edith Wharton
-
The Age of Innocence
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Margaret Melosh
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The story of "The Age of Innocence" is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the so-called Gilded Age. Newland Archer has the perfect life. He is rich, young, good looking and member of the New York High Society. Newland is engaged to a lovely, delightful girl, May Welland and later they get married. When her cousin (Ellen Olenska), comes back from Europe, her presence threatens their happiness as Newland develops feelings for her... Wharton manages to dissect the hypocrisy of a society where customs and position take center stage.
By: Edith Wharton
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The House of Mirth
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson, the novel creates a satiric portrayal of what Wharton herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers" with a precision comparable to that of Proust.
-
-
Fine reading of a great classic
- By Everett Leiter on 09-02-05
By: Edith Wharton
-
The House of Mirth
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Margaret Melosh
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, a penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a wealthy man, a hothouse flower for conspicuous consumption. As an unattached woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her. Written in the style of a novel of manners, the writing itself is an illustration of American literary naturalism.
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Background interference.
- By Deborah A. Para on 04-22-22
By: Edith Wharton
Story was enchanting.
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Worst narrator ever
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Terrible semi literate reader
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