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The American Classics Collection: Volume II is a century-spanning collection of 15 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Adam Sims; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, Katherine Fenton; and more.

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors....

Rescued from a poverty-stricken mountain life, Charity Royall lives as ward to Lawyer Royall in the small New England town of North Dormer. However, Charity is bored by her job and feels thwarted by the order that governs her society–until a young man plucks her from North Dormer life.

Set in early 20th century New York, Edith Wharton's classic novel follows the changing fortunes of the beautiful Lily Bart, an impoverished socialite who relies on the kindness of rich friends to move in glamorous society....

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture....

Nine unabridged works by time-honoured female and male writers exploring what love, family, and marriage mean....

Contained in this collection are four more enduring classics, read in full by some of the very best audiobook narrators....

Set in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch....

Summer details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, 18-year-old, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child....

This selection of stories relates the many experiences and complexities of womanhood; sometimes joyful, sometimes sad but always enriching....

Beautiful, sophisticated and endlessly ambitious Lily Bart endeavours to climb the social ladder of New York's elite by securing a good match and living beyond her means....

Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim....

Este relato explora las complejidades del mundo del arte y la autopercepción del talento. La historia sigue a Jack Gisburn, un pintor reconocido, cuya...

In A Motor Flight through France, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton invites listeners on an extraordinary journey through the French countryside at the dawn of the motor age.

La historia se centra en Mary y Ned Boyne, un matrimonio estadounidense que se muda a una antigua casa en Inglaterra. Fascinados por lo paranormal...

Un empleado de una compañía eléctrica ha sido enviado a estudiar la zona de un pequeño pueblo de Massachussets. Allí será cobijado, en una noche de tormenta, por Ethan Frome, quien debe soportar diariamente la compañía de su esposa Zeena....

La novela tiene lugar en el pequeño círculo aristocrático de Nueva York en la década de 1870, que puede mostrar una línea de antepasados que se...

In Hudson River Bracketed, Edith Wharton illuminates the creative process of writing. Vance Weston, a young Midwesterner yearning to be a writer, travels to New York in pursuit of his dreams. On the Hudson River, in an old house called The Willows, he meets a kindred spirit.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

The stories are all set in New York City and concern themselves with various facets of life in Gilded Age New York City—from the highest of high society to the commonest pensioner in less fashionable neighborhoods in boarding houses.