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

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.