The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One
Edith Wharton
Read by Winnifred Assmann
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 |