Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth
Read by Elizabeth Klett
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in ric…
The Age of Innocence
Read by Brenda Dayne
In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolut…
The Age of Innocence (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer …
Ethan Frome
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield,…
The Glimpses of the Moon
Read by Elizabeth Klett
"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off weal…
Summer (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…
The Touchstone
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an adv…
The Custom of the Country (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional M…
Madame de Treymes
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old…
Sanctuary (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a t…
Ethan Frome (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of St…
Crucial Instances
Read by Elizabeth Klett
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…
Summer
Read by Robin Cotter
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity …
Tales of Men and Ghosts
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and …
The Greater Inclination
Read by Elizabeth Klett
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriag…
The Decoration of Houses
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The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In …
The Descent of Man and Other Stories
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtshi…
The Fruit of the Tree
Read by Margaret Espaillat
When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due t…
El País del Placer
Read by Victor Villarraza
El país del placer llamada así por la primera traducción en español de esta novela de Edith Wharton publicada po…
Short Story Collection Vol. 004
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
Afterward
Read by Charlie Blakemore
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 -…
Bunner Sisters
Read by Margaret Espaillat
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 024
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
Read by Elizabeth Klett
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…
The Reef
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George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, A…
The Marne: a tale of the war
Read by Elizabeth Klett
American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She li…
Sanctuary
Read by Jacquerie
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…
30 American Poems
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This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US …
The House of Mirth (Version 3)
Read by Jan Moorehouse
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mut…
Short Story Collection Vol. 039
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 039: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Short Story Collection Vol. 035
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A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members.
The Custom of the Country
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Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…
The Valley of Decision
Read by Robert Keiper
Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politic…
PD Goth
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A collection of spooky stories culled from etexts found on Project Gutenberg (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Short Story Collection Vol. 048
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 048: a collection of 19 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
The House of Mirth (Version 2)
Read by Bellona Times
Wharton's classic story of an aging (by Victorian-era standards) spinster socialite who would rather marry for money than for true love. (Su…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 032
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
The Age of Innocence (Dramatic Reading)
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The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presenc…
1891 Collection
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A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…
International Women's Literature Collection
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This is a collection of works -- short stories or poetry -- by women writers in English from around the world and first published before 192…
Old New York
Read by Nancy Halper
Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas (False Dawn; The Old Maid; The Spark; New Year's Day) by Edith Wharton, revolving arou…
Short Story Collection Vol. 049
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 049: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.'H…
The Mother's Recompense
Read by Anne Fletcher
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …
1916: First Chapters Collection
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These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…
First Chapter Collection 001
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"Are you wishing sometimes that you had a good book which you don't know, that you might just read and enjoy? The goal of this collecti…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 044
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
A Son At The Front
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This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulit…
The Long Run
Read by VfkaBT
A wealthy bachelor businessman looks back on the romance that he fumbled with a beautiful married woman he and his college buddy both had cr…
Coffee Break Collection 015 - World of Work
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This is the fifteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in …
Twilight Sleep
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…
Short Poetry Collection 008
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
The Writing of Fiction
Read by William Allan Jones
Practical suggestions on how to get started writing fiction with liberal references to Arthur Quiller-Couch. She appears to prefer a list of…
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. "The Hermit and the Wild Woman" (rather differen…
Short Poetry Collection 074
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This is a collection of poems for the month of December 2008.
Short Poetry Collection 201
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This is a collection of 49 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2020.
Short Poetry Collection 183
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This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2018.
Coffee Break Collection 034 - Vacations
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This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door…