Selected Shorts: Edith Wharton (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

Product Description

Four stories written by the great American fiction writer Edith Wharton and read by terrific actors, including Maria Tucci and Kathleen Chalfant, make up this two-CD set, recorded live at The Mount, Wharton’s house and gardens which she designed and built in Lenox, Massachusetts. The first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the first woman to be granted full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Wharton is known for writing stories that reveal a keen satire of upper-class manners, an unblinking recognition of passion’s limits, and a powerfully observant style.

Review

Best AudioBooks of 2007
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About the Author

Edith Wharton is noted for her subtle, ironic, and superbly crafted stories of the Gilded Age. She is the author of
The Age of Innocence and
Ethan Frome.