AuthorEdith Wharton
NarratorKristen Underwood
Duration10h 42m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Classics
PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
VersionUnabridged
The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel, Edith Wharton visited England, Sicily, and Germany, among other locations. Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, her first love, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau, Givre, to await her future. Between two short distances can anything happen to disrupt such promise?
Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Grace Conlin
Duration 2h 58m
This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned but now famous lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to sellin...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Grace Conlin
Duration 5h 35m
Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917: a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Independent yet kept from love until now by society's expectations, Charity finds herself w...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 45m
Edith Wharton displays typical expertise in this portrayal of high society tensions. Jane Lethbury surprises and confounds her husband in asking him to let her adopt a baby.
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Full Cast, Andrew Wincott
Duration 1h 53m
A full-cast Unabridged of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York. In the exclusive world of upper-class New York, in which attendance at balls and dinner passes for occupation, Newland Archer anticipates his marriage to May Welland, a b...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Anna Fields
Duration 13h 41m
Set among the elegant brownstones and opulent country houses of turn-of-the-century upper-class New York, Edith Wharton's first great novel is a precise, satiric portrayal of what the author herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers." Her brilliantly complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and depen...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Richard Thomas
Duration 3h 40m
Conventional and circumstance bind the young Ethan Frome to a wife he cannot love. Grimly resigned to his fate, he sees for himself a life as bleak and constricted as the New England farm on which he lives. Then the appearance in his bleak personal landscape of his ailing wife's orphaned young cousin, Mattie Silver, rouses in Ethan a fierce passion...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Anna Fields
Duration 4h 53m
A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is Edith Wharton's remarkable account of her journey to that country during World War I. With her characteristic sense of adventure, Wharton set out to explore Morocco and its people, traveling by military jeep to Rabat, Moulay Idriss, Fez, and Marrakech, from the Atlantic coast to the high Atlas. Along the w...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Anna Fields
Duration 8h 56m
Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. Bo...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 29m
In ''Atrophy,'' an unhappily married matron named Nora Fenway hears that her one-time clandestine lover, Christopher, is severely ill; she risks her reputation by going to visit him, but is turned away by his sanctimonious sister. A heartbreaking tale which emphasises the importance of human bonds but also examines the restraints we endure at the h...
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Author: Edith Wharton
Author Edith Wharton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 49m
The play follows the beautiful Undine Spragg as she arrives in New York and sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, then travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. Will Undine ever find real happiness?
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