

Hudson River Bracketed
Author: Edith Wharton
Narrator: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)
Unabridged: 15 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Loudly
Published: 01/05/2024
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Classic
Author: Edith Wharton
Narrator: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)
Unabridged: 15 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Loudly
Published: 01/05/2024
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Classic
American author Edith Wharton is distinguished for her stories and ironic novels about early-twentieth-century, upper-class Americans and Europeans. Although Ethan Frome, a stark New England tragedy, is probably her best-known work, she earned recognition and popularity for her "society novels," in which she analyzed the changing scene of fashionable American life in contrast to that of Old Europe.
Wharton's literary talent was epitomized in her novel The Age of Innocence, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and which was made into a film in 1993. Other major works of hers include The House of Mirth, The Reef, and The Custom of the Country. She published more than forty volumes, including novels, short stories, poems, essays, travel books, and memoirs.
Born Edith Newbold Jones into a wealthy and socially prominent New York family in 1862, she was educated privately by European governesses both in the United States and abroad. In 1885, Edith reluctantly married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker, who was twelve years her senior. The marriage ended in divorce twenty-eight years later.
Wharton spent long periods of time in Europe and settled in France from 1910 until her death. Her familiarity with continental languages and European settings influenced many of her works. She became a literary hostess to young writers, including Henry James, at her Paris apartment and her garden home in the south of France. During World War I, she was a war correspondent, ran a workroom for unemployed but skilled woman workers, and took charge of 600 Belgian child refugees who had to leave their orphanage at the time of the German advance.
Wharton was also active in fund-raising activities and participated in the production of an illustrated anthology of war writings by prominent authors and artists of the period. The French government awarded her the Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1915. Wharton died in 1937.
I've read many of Wharton's books and this is perhaps my favorite. While vastly different from her novels of New York, I found it most similar in style to Summer. This saga follows the life of burgeoning writer Vance Weston. Over the course of many years (five or six maybe) we see him develop in min......more
Deat had simply closed the book in which he had long ago read the last word. The strongest part of the book were the characters and the portraits of two marriages, so different and yet, so similar. The characters weren't black and white. The study of them was brilliant. And their marriages - a gr......more
Edith Wharton's classic story of a young Midwesterner who heads to New York in hopes of becoming a writer is filled with elements that her fans will recognize at once. The great themes of love, renunciation, and bittersweet reconciliation play out against a New York peopled with families who embody......more
A sprawling, magnificent, occasionally tedious, sometimes frustrating, often absorbing künstlerromanan centred around an author-protagonist who is deeply unlikeable but whose flaws ring true and whom we can pity, if never actually admire. Wharton is an utter genius at depicting unhappiness in its va......more