Edith Wharton Audio Downloads

In a world where "being things" was better than "doing things"; a world where heredity and family connections were the most important things of all; in an Age of Innocence, they broke all the rules.

Set in the wintry New England town named Starkfield at the turn of the 20th century, this novel tells the story of Ethan Frome as he seeks to escape his sickly wife Zeena for his young, beautiful cousin Mattie.

Set in the 1870s, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new....

Listen to Edith Wharton's classic novel The House of Mirth published in 1905. This novel of manners takes a look at the New York ruling class in the 1890s.

The pathetic but perceptive Lewis Raycie is sent on a grand tour of Europe with instructions to collect great art....

Countess Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society....

Eidth Wharthon and architect Odgen Codman discuss Victorian interior decoration and design. They denounce much of the Victorian practices and offer more practical and classical ways of decorating the interior of a house.

Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the free-thinking movement, and, of course, his subjects, the peasants.

Mary and Ned Boyne have fled their dreary life in Wisconsin for a home in rustic Dorsetshire. But you can only run so far, and some things - some secret things - may follow you.

Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee.