Download Edith Wharton on Audio, Vol. 1: The Last Asset, Autre Temps, Expiation AudioBook Free

Edith Wharton on Audio tracks, Vol. 1 includes a few of the many short experiences she made up during her stay at The Support from 1902 to 1911. The experiences delve deeply in to the issues she was most concerned with at the time - particularly the paradox of balancing a life of integrity with the mandatory compromises of conforming to a newly formed world. The Gilded Age helped bring with it new regulations and the beliefs therein often clashed with people of a lot more noble Western european aristocracy of Edith's history. In "THE PAST Asset", Wharton is at her best, depicting a sociable climbing mother who commissions a journalist to get her estranged husband from obscurity in order to provide a facade of respectability for her daughter's immanent relationship. "Autre Temps" comes after the travails of an divorced mother re-entering world after being cut from various New Great britain social circles for the intended purpose of helping her daughter's relationship. Her underestimating of the mechanistic conformity of world leads her to a 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 e book, he by denouncing it from the pulpit; the book's subject is that of Edith's adolescent melodrama,Fast and Loose." (from Edith Wharton: A Biography, by R.W.B. Lewis)

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