The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One


Read by Winnifred Assmann

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Five early short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of Mirth. Includes “Kerfol,” “Mrs. Manstey's View,” “The Bolted Door,” “The Dilettante,” and “The House of the Dead Hand.”

With one possible exception (“The Dilettante”), these early stories are dark tales about ghosts (canine and human), dark deeds of the past and present and how they haunt their perpetrators and victims, and narrators/central characters with a fierce determination to pursue their hearts’ desires at all costs.

Even the one exception, which seems more like Wharton’s later tales of the complicated relationships between men and women, is haunted by the ghost of the past. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann) (4 hr 40 min)

Chapters

Kerfol, Part I 18:30 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Kerfol, Part II 2:06 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Kerfol, Part III 38:20 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Mrs. Manstey’s View 27:11 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Bolted Door, Part I 18:25 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Bolted Door, Part II 18:06 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Bolted Door, Part III 23:00 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Bolted Door, Part IV 7:29 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Bolted Door, Part V 12:28 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Bolted Door, Part VI 15:00 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Bolted Door, Part VII 6:57 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The Dilettante 23:56 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The House of the Dead Hand, Part I 32:09 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The House of the Dead Hand, Part II 13:33 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The House of the Dead Hand, Part III 13:10 Read by Winnifred Assmann
The House of the Dead Hand, Part IV 9:53 Read by Winnifred Assmann