Selected Shorts: Edith Wharton: A Celebration of the Short Story (Selected Shorts Series)

"Some of the more intelligent short stories in audiobook land are on the yearly release of Selected Shorts by Symphony Space." --Rochelle O'Gorman, syndicated audio columnist

Best AudioBooks of 2007", AudioFile "

Best AudioBooks of 2007," AudioFile ""

Best AudioBooks of 2007, AudioFile "

Best AudioBooks of 2007, AudioFile

Four stories written by the great American fiction writer Edith Wharton and read by terrific actors, including Maria Tucci and Kathleen Chalfant, make up this two-CD set, recorded live at The Mount, Wharton's house and gardens which she designed and built in Lenox, Massachusetts. The first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the first woman to be granted full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Wharton is known for writing stories that reveal a keen satire of upper-class manners, an unblinking recognition of passion's limits, and a powerfully observant style.