Download audiobook

 

Glimpses of the Moon, The

Author : Edith Wharton

Performed By : Anna Fields

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 9 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $34.95 $29.95

Purchase...

"As Wharton tells [the] story, the sharp irony of both her prose and her characters

bleeds into pools of true feeling."Kirkus Reviews

"There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major'and Edith

Wharton is one."Gore Vidal

Set in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures

of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds.

They devise a shrewd bargain: they'll marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends,

honeymooning in their mansions and villas.



As Susy explains, "We should really, in a way, help more than we should hamper each other. We both

know the ropes so well; what one of us didn't see the other mightin the way of opportunities, I mean.

And then we should be a novelty as married people. We're both rather unusually popularwhy not be

frank?and it's such a blessing for dinner-givers to be able to count on a couple of whom neither one

is a blank."



The other part of the plan is that if either one of them meets someone who can advance them socially,

they're each free to dissolve the marriage. How their plan unfolds is a comedy of Eros that will charm

all fans of Wharton's work.

-

 

Daisy Miller

Author : Henry James

Performed By : Susan O'Malley

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $25.95 $9.95

Purchase...

"By maintaining a vigorous, satisfying pace, Susan O'Malley holds the listener's attention admirably. Her reading is intelligent and agreeable."AudioFile

"What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does...."Leslie Fiedler

When Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the commonplace, newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her "inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence". The Millers have no perception of the complex code that underlies behavior in European society, and Winterbourne is astonished at the girl's unworldliness and her mother's unconcern when Daisy accompanies him to the Castle of Chillon. Some months later, he meets the family in Rome, where Daisy has aroused suspicion among the American colony by being seen constantly with a third-rate Italian. Ostracized by former friends who think her "intrigue" has gone too far, Daisy denies that she is engaged to Giovanelli. Publicly, Winterbourne defends her as simply uncultivated, but privately, he hesitates.