Summer by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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12/19/22

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354m

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Summer by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: drama

In a secluded New England village called North Dormer, Charity Royall has grown up feeling both restless and trapped, raised by the stern, older lawyer who rescued her from the impoverished Mountain community nearby. When Lucius Harney, a young architect from the city, arrives to study local houses, his curiosity about the town and his easy confidence awaken Charity's longing for a larger life and a different future. Drawn into a summer of walks, talks, and secret meetings, Charity begins to test the boundaries of what her small world permits, even as gossip, class prejudice, and her own uncertain origins tighten around her. As the season turns, she faces hard choices about love, belonging, and the price of independence in a place that measures a woman's worth by her reputation. Edith Wharton crafts a tense, intimate portrait of desire colliding with duty, and of a young woman struggling to claim her identity in a community that refuses to forget where she came from.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:40) Chapter 02

(00:34:45) Chapter 03

(00:45:58) Chapter 04

(00:53:49) Chapter 05

(01:11:10) Chapter 06

(01:36:42) Chapter 07

(02:00:11) Chapter 08

(02:19:18) Chapter 09

(02:40:02) Chapter 10

(02:55:57) Chapter 11

(03:14:51) Chapter 12

(03:38:27) Chapter 13

(03:51:27) Chapter 14

(04:05:31) Chapter 15

(04:35:56) Chapter 16

(05:01:44) Chapter 17

(05:19:26) Chapter 18

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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

(02:40:18) Chapter 11

(02:50:22) Chapter 12

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Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [horror]

December 19, 2022

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588m

Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: horror

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 last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber the ghosts, since only 'The Eyes' and 'Afterward' actually call on the supernatural. In only two of the stories are women the central characters, though elsewhere they play important roles. Wharton enjoys subjecting her subjects -- all of them American gentlemen and gentlewomen, in the conventional senses of the word -- to various moral tests and sometimes ironic tests. Some of the stories deal with the intellectual fashions of the day -- 'The Blond Beast' basing itself, to some degree, on Nietzsche, and 'The Debt' on variants of Darwinism. Though 'Afterward' is set in England, and 'The Letters' in France, the rest of the stories are squarely in Wharton's own New York city, rather than (say) in what she calls 'the soul-deadening ugliness of the Middle West,' thus avoiding the need to come to terms with what fashion-conscious New Yorkers still today call 'fly-over country' for everything that lies between the west bank of the Hudson River and San Francisco Bay.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:56:02) Chapter 02

(01:34:57) Chapter 03

(02:13:30) Chapter 04

(02:43:21) Chapter 05

(03:16:18) Chapter 06

(04:07:45) Chapter 07

(05:09:40) Chapter 08

(05:55:08) Chapter 09

(06:54:57) Chapter 10