The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume One
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)
Genre(s): Single Author Collections
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Kerfol, Part I | Winnifred Assmann |
00:18:30 |
| Play 02 | Kerfol, Part II | Winnifred Assmann |
00:02:06 |
| Play 03 | Kerfol, Part III | Winnifred Assmann |
00:38:20 |
| Play 04 | Mrs. Manstey’s View | Winnifred Assmann |
00:27:11 |
| Play 05 | The Bolted Door, Part I | Winnifred Assmann |
00:18:25 |
| Play 06 | The Bolted Door, Part II | Winnifred Assmann |
00:18:06 |
| Play 07 | The Bolted Door, Part III | Winnifred Assmann |
00:23:00 |
| Play 08 | The Bolted Door, Part IV | Winnifred Assmann |
00:07:29 |
| Play 09 | The Bolted Door, Part V | Winnifred Assmann |
00:12:28 |
| Play 10 | The Bolted Door, Part VI | Winnifred Assmann |
00:15:00 |
| Play 11 | The Bolted Door, Part VII | Winnifred Assmann |
00:06:57 |
| Play 12 | The Dilettante | Winnifred Assmann |
00:23:56 |
| Play 13 | The House of the Dead Hand, Part I | Winnifred Assmann |
00:32:09 |
| Play 14 | The House of the Dead Hand, Part II | Winnifred Assmann |
00:13:33 |
| Play 15 | The House of the Dead Hand, Part III | Winnifred Assmann |
00:13:10 |
| Play 16 | The House of the Dead Hand, Part IV | Winnifred Assmann |
00:09:53 |