Old New York by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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12/16/22

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Old New York by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Old New York, Edith Wharton turns her sharp, compassionate eye on the drawing rooms, parlor staircases, and carefully guarded reputations of nineteenth-century Manhattan. This quartet of novellas follows four separate circles of family and friends as they navigate the rigid codes of 'Old New York' society, where taste is policed, marriages are negotiated like treaties, and a single indiscretion can echo for decades. In one story, a well-meaning idealist tries to bring European art and modern ideas home to a city determined to stay comfortable and conservative. In another, two women are bound together by an unspoken bargain that tests the limits of duty, loyalty, and love. Elsewhere, ambition and vanity collide at the edge of the fashionable world, where the right invitation can make a life and the wrong rumor can end it. And in a final tale, a marriage marked by secrecy forces a woman to measure freedom against the price of respectability. With wit, moral tension, and exquisite social detail, Wharton reveals how power, class, and gender shape private lives behind public manners.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:07) Chapter 02

(00:34:55) Chapter 03

(00:52:27) Chapter 04

(01:05:14) Chapter 05

(01:16:42) Chapter 06

(01:31:35) Chapter 07

(01:43:50) Chapter 08

(01:54:41) Chapter 09

(02:06:06) Chapter 10

(02:33:46) Chapter 11

(02:44:42) Chapter 12

(02:53:10) Chapter 13

(03:11:31) Chapter 14

(03:16:48) Chapter 15

(03:26:38) Chapter 16

(03:36:43) Chapter 17

(03:54:26) Chapter 18

(04:07:55) Chapter 19

(04:21:43) Chapter 20

(04:54:21) Chapter 21

(05:08:15) Chapter 22

(05:29:17) Chapter 23

(05:53:24) Chapter 24

(06:08:18) Chapter 25

(06:32:41) Chapter 26

(06:50:21) Chapter 27

(07:01:32) Chapter 28

(07:14:29) Chapter 29

(07:39:04) Chapter 30

(07:58:56) Chapter 31

(08:32:04) Chapter 32

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Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 16, 2022

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212m

Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: drama

In a quiet, down-at-the-heels corner of turn-of-the-century New York, sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner scrape together a living by running a tiny notions shop. Their days are measured in pennies, thread spools, and careful routines, and their world feels small but safe - until a seemingly simple decision pulls them into the broader city and the risky hopes it offers. When they befriend the gentle, struggling clock repairman Herman Ramy, the sisters find their hard-won stability tested by desire, loyalty, and the ache of wanting more than survival. Edith Wharton turns this modest setting into a sharp, compassionate study of the costs of kindness and the quiet violence of poverty, where every gift carries a weight and every choice can reshape a life. As aspirations rise and misunderstandings multiply, Ann Eliza must navigate the tender bond she shares with Evelina and the painful question of what love requires - for a sister, for a friend, and for oneself.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:32) Chapter 02

(00:37:08) Chapter 03

(00:45:12) Chapter 04

(00:55:03) Chapter 05

(01:07:58) Chapter 06

(01:15:46) Chapter 07

(01:37:27) Chapter 08

(01:56:51) Chapter 09

(02:14:49) Chapter 10

(02:34:41) Chapter 11

(02:58:22) Chapter 12

(03:10:07) Chapter 13

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Sanctuary by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 16, 2022

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193m

Sanctuary by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Edith Wharton's psychological novel Sanctuary, young Kate Orme believes she has found perfect happiness in her engagement to Denis Peyton, a charming man of wealth and position. But just as wedding plans settle into place, Kate discovers that Denis has been hiding a devastating truth about his past, and the revelation forces her to weigh love against conscience in a world where reputation and family honor carry enormous weight. After marriage and the birth of their son, Kate's private fears deepen into an obsession: she becomes convinced that moral weakness can be inherited, and that Denis' flaws may live on in their child. Determined to build a refuge of character and restraint, she devotes herself to shaping her son's future, even as the pressures of society and the ambiguities of human motive erode any simple sense of right and wrong. Years later, when her now-adult son comes to her with a crisis that tests everything she has tried to protect, Kate must confront the cost of her own idea of sanctuary, and the uneasy boundary between guidance and control.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:43) Chapter 02

(00:26:31) Chapter 03

(00:40:22) Chapter 04

(01:08:19) Chapter 05

(01:28:57) Chapter 06

(01:43:03) Chapter 07

(01:53:10) Chapter 08

(02:06:45) Chapter 09

(02:29:09) Chapter 10