Edith wharton
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs—tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented...
3) Ethan Frome
5) Summer
"Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone..." - From Xingu by Edith Wharton
Selected Shorts has toured to The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and other writers. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short
...This 2007 Audie Award finalist features more than three hours of some of the greatest shorts stories of all time.
James Thurber's The Night the Ghost Got In
read by Isaiah Sheffer
Comic Mayhem is unleashed when a family hears a ghost in the night - and calls in the police.
Edith Wharton's Roman Fever
read by Maria Tucci
Two women reflect on romance and intrigue, long ago in Rome.
Jack London's
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