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The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
12/19/22
•949m
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The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Genre: drama
In early 20th-century New England, young social worker Justine Brent arrives in the hill town of Hanaford determined to make herself useful, only to find that good intentions can collide with privilege, tradition, and the messy realities of care. Drawn into the orbit of the wealthy Amherst family, Justine becomes companion and confidante to the restless, idealistic John Amherst and his ailing wife, Bessy, whose chronic pain and fragile nerves dominate the household. As Justine and John throw themselves into reforming a local mill town and improving workers' lives, private crises begin to threaten their public mission. When an accident and a long convalescence push the family to the edge, Justine is forced to weigh duty against compassion and ask what mercy truly means, especially when law, medicine, and social judgment offer no clear answers. Edith Wharton crafts a tense, morally complex story about conscience and consequence, love and loyalty, and the price of acting on principle in a world that rarely forgives difficult choices.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:06:44) Chapter 02
(00:38:46) Chapter 03
(01:04:38) Chapter 04
(01:38:16) Chapter 05
(02:09:23) Chapter 06
(02:36:42) Chapter 07
(03:05:47) Chapter 08
(03:26:02) Chapter 09
(03:46:36) Chapter 10
(04:10:52) Chapter 11
(04:34:21) Chapter 12
(05:03:49) Chapter 13
(05:21:23) Chapter 14
(05:45:43) Chapter 15
(06:03:50) Chapter 16
(06:22:06) Chapter 17
(06:52:57) Chapter 18
(07:12:22) Chapter 19
(07:32:33) Chapter 20
(07:46:22) Chapter 21
(08:09:31) Chapter 22
(08:30:58) Chapter 23
(08:46:08) Chapter 24
(09:12:00) Chapter 25
(09:33:59) Chapter 26
(09:50:11) Chapter 27
(10:07:55) Chapter 28
(10:30:23) Chapter 29
(10:48:25) Chapter 30
(11:13:44) Chapter 31
(11:32:00) Chapter 32
(11:48:53) Chapter 33
(12:05:31) Chapter 34
(12:33:16) Chapter 35
(12:44:37) Chapter 36
(13:09:08) Chapter 37
(13:25:52) Chapter 38
(13:45:10) Chapter 39
(14:15:47) Chapter 40
(14:39:29) Chapter 41
(14:59:47) Chapter 42
(15:16:40) Chapter 43
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Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [horror]
December 19, 2022
•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
(08:05:11) Chapter 11
(08:44:56) Chapter 12
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The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
December 21, 2022
•482m
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton audiobook.
Genre: drama
Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon follows Susy Branch and Nick Lansing, two charming, cash-strapped members of New York's glittering social orbit who decide to marry for love while trying to outmaneuver the realities of money. Their plan is to live lightly, borrowing the luxuries of their wealthy friends and drifting from one borrowed house party, yacht trip, and country weekend to the next. But the thin line between freedom and dependence quickly tightens. As invitations come with expectations, and kindness carries hidden costs, Susy and Nick discover how easily a marriage can be strained by envy, pride, and the quiet humiliations of always needing something. When tempting alternatives appear in the form of richer companions and more stable futures, the couple must confront what they truly owe each other - and what they are willing to sacrifice to keep love from turning into a transaction. With Wharton's sharp eye for social performance and emotional truth, the novel explores devotion, ambition, and the price of belonging in a world where comfort is never free.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:17:16) Chapter 02
(00:31:26) Chapter 03
(00:42:33) Chapter 04
(00:57:32) Chapter 05
(01:11:02) Chapter 06
(01:23:44) Chapter 07
(01:40:46) Chapter 08
(01:54:07) Chapter 09
(02:12:17) Chapter 10
(02:28:25) Chapter 11
(02:42:30) Chapter 12
(03:02:46) Chapter 13
(03:21:36) Chapter 14
(03:35:11) Chapter 15
(03:53:33) Chapter 16
(04:08:59) Chapter 17
(04:26:53) Chapter 18
(04:41:24) Chapter 19
(05:00:30) Chapter 20
(05:19:32) Chapter 21
(05:35:04) Chapter 22
(05:50:29) Chapter 23
(06:06:35) Chapter 24
(06:20:02) Chapter 25
(06:40:34) Chapter 26
(06:56:32) Chapter 27
(07:06:05) Chapter 28
(07:18:42) Chapter 29
(07:37:46) Chapter 30
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