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Title: Edith Wharton on Audio, Vol. 1
Subtitle: The Last Asset, Autre Temps, Expiation
Author: Edith Wharton
Narrator: Jonathan Epstein, Tod Randolph, Tara Franklin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-19-10
Publisher: BMA Audio The Mount Press
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Classics, American Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Edith Wharton on Audio, Vol. 1 contains a few of the many short stories she composed during her stay at The Mount from 1902 to 1911. The stories delve deeply into the issues she was most concerned with at the time namely the paradox of balancing a life of integrity with the required compromises of conforming to a newly formed society. The Gilded Age brought with it new rules and regulations and the values therein often clashed with the ones of the more noble European aristocracy of Ediths background.
In "The Last Asset", Wharton is at her best, depicting a social climbing mother who commissions a young journalist to retrieve her estranged husband from obscurity in order to present a facade of respectability for her daughter's immanent marriage.
"Autre Temps" follows the travails of a divorced mother re-entering society after being cut from various New England social circles for the purpose of supporting her daughter's marriage. Her underestimating of the mechanistic conformity of society leads her to an ironic fate.
In "Expiation", one of Wharton's funniest satires, "a bishop and his niece conspire to earn each other's fortunes, she by writing a mildly scandalous book, he by denouncing it from the pulpit; the book's title is that of Edith's adolescent melodrama,Fast and Loose." (from Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R.W.B. Lewis)
Critic Reviews:
"A social climber hires a reporter to rehabilitate her reclusive estranged husbands reputation; a divorcée tries to reenter New England society for the sake of her daughters impending nuptials; an aspiring writer and her clergyman uncle conspire to gain notoriety by her writing a scandalous book that he condemns from the pulpit. At first, these three stories of high-society misdeeds in the Gilded Age may strike the uninitiated as no longer relevant. But Whartons psychological insight, her apt humor, and especially the sheer patrician beauty of her writing transcend the quotidian references of their time. Of the three intelligent and expressive narrators heard in this volume, Tod Randolph stands out for her adroit and mellifluous delivery of the authors artistic and thematic values." (AudioFile)
Members Reviews:
A Splendid Listen
Don't when I've enjoyed an audiobook more. I thought I had read all there was in Wharton's oeuvre and am delighted to have discovered these three gems.The fine cast of readers handle Ms Wharton's sophisticated prose with impressive skill and to the listener's benefit. I look forward to more from this label.
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Title: Edith Wharton on Audio, Vol. 1
Subtitle: The Last Asset, Autre Temps, Expiation
Author: Edith Wharton
Narrator: Jonathan Epstein, Tod Randolph, Tara Franklin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-19-10
Publisher: BMA Audio The Mount Press
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Classics, American Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Edith Wharton on Audio, Vol. 1 contains a few of the many short stories she composed during her stay at The Mount from 1902 to 1911. The stories delve deeply into the issues she was most concerned with at the time namely the paradox of balancing a life of integrity with the required compromises of conforming to a newly formed society. The Gilded Age brought with it new rules and regulations and the values therein often clashed with the ones of the more noble European aristocracy of Ediths background.
In "The Last Asset", Wharton is at her best, depicting a social climbing mother who commissions a young journalist to retrieve her estranged husband from obscurity in order to present a facade of respectability for her daughter's immanent marriage.
"Autre Temps" follows the travails of a divorced mother re-entering society after being cut from various New England social circles for the purpose of supporting her daughter's marriage. Her underestimating of the mechanistic conformity of society leads her to an ironic fate.
In "Expiation", one of Wharton's funniest satires, "a bishop and his niece conspire to earn each other's fortunes, she by writing a mildly scandalous book, he by denouncing it from the pulpit; the book's title is that of Edith's adolescent melodrama,Fast and Loose." (from Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R.W.B. Lewis)
Critic Reviews:
"A social climber hires a reporter to rehabilitate her reclusive estranged husbands reputation; a divorcée tries to reenter New England society for the sake of her daughters impending nuptials; an aspiring writer and her clergyman uncle conspire to gain notoriety by her writing a scandalous book that he condemns from the pulpit. At first, these three stories of high-society misdeeds in the Gilded Age may strike the uninitiated as no longer relevant. But Whartons psychological insight, her apt humor, and especially the sheer patrician beauty of her writing transcend the quotidian references of their time. Of the three intelligent and expressive narrators heard in this volume, Tod Randolph stands out for her adroit and mellifluous delivery of the authors artistic and thematic values." (AudioFile)
Members Reviews:
A Splendid Listen
Don't when I've enjoyed an audiobook more. I thought I had read all there was in Wharton's oeuvre and am delighted to have discovered these three gems.The fine cast of readers handle Ms Wharton's sophisticated prose with impressive skill and to the listener's benefit. I look forward to more from this label.