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The House of Mirth
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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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- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
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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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor Quality Recording
- By Natasha Bray on 12-06-19
By: Edith Wharton
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The Glimpses of the Moon
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Kate Harper
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great love story
- By Margaret on 02-03-23
By: Edith Wharton
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The House of Mirth
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Jan Moorehouse
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
Witty socialite Lily Bart has expensive tastes. Unfortunately, she does not have the social status to match. So far she has managed to get by on ‘old money’ and has become accustomed to a certain level of luxury. Her luck seems to be running out, however, as she approaches thirty and begins to scramble for an eligible bachelor who will secure her both an elevation of social status and stability.
By: Edith Wharton
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The Buccaneers
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4 out of 5 stars 95
Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An ok story with sass
- By Dana on 02-11-13
By: Edith Wharton
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The Age of Innocence
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Crush
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded Age" New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic story and societal observations
- By Jane K on 03-27-24
By: Edith Wharton
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The Golden Bowl
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 25 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 85
Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for - except a husband and a title. While in Italy, acquiring art for his museum back in the States, Maggie’s millionaire father, Adam, decides to remedy this and acquire a husband for Maggie. Enter Prince Amerigo, of a titled but now poor aristocratic Florentine family. Amerigo is the perfect candidate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you don't love this book, it's your fault
- By Viewer on 09-14-18
By: Henry James
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The House of Mirth
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Emma Messenger
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 394
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Story4 out of 5 stars 343
In 1905 New York City, Lily Bart is a young, witty and beautiful socialite. Through a series of unfortunate events, she learns of the bitter consequences for a single woman without wealth, living in an uncaring society.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, but Quite Dated
- By Michael on 08-09-15
By: Edith Wharton
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Ethan Frome
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Set deep in the remote countryside of Massachusetts, New England, in a world of small-town prejudice, pettiness and rural poverty, the story of Ethan Frome explores the crippling marriage of a young man to an older woman and his love for her vibrant young cousin, Mattie, who lives as a dependent in the Frome household. His feelings lead to a day of explosive emotions with tragic consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really enjoyed the narration
- By Kurt Dreibholz on 11-11-23
By: Edith Wharton
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Ethan Frome (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Edith Wharton
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
In the dead gray cold of Starkfield, Massachusetts, farmer Ethan Frome is struggling to scrape out a living. His duties are to his wife, Zeena - an ungrateful, soul-sick hypochondriac as frigid as the New England winter. When Zeena’s cousin Mattie arrives to help with the farm, the ethereal, gentle-natured beauty brings a light and a fugitive affection into Ethan’s life. Yet for Ethan and Mattie, daring to be happy - and together - will have its consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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COVID cabin fever entertainment
- By Naomi Levine on 12-29-20
By: Edith Wharton
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- Martha
- 03-10-24
Story was enchanting.
The reading was the worst I have heard. It was as though the speaker was reading this for the first time, mispronouncing words and halting sentences. 👎
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