Description: These CDs will play in any CD player at home or in your car. Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) Read by Nicholas Clifford Running Time:9:34:54 in 10 Audio CDs Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber the ghosts, since only "The Eyes" and "Afterward" actually call on the supernatural. In only two of the stories are women the central characters, though elsewhere they play important roles. Wharton enjoys subjecting her subjects -- all of them American gentlemen and gentlewomen, in the conventional senses of the word -- to various moral tests and sometimes ironic tests. Some of the stories deal with the intellectual fashions of the day -- "The Blond Beast" basing itself, to some degree, on Nietzsche, and "The Debt" on variants of Darwinism. Though "Afterward" is set in England, and "The Letters" in France, the rest of the stories are squarely in Wharton's own New York city, rather than (say) in what she calls "the soul-deadening ugliness of the Middle West," thus avoiding the need to come to terms with what fashion-conscious New Yorkers still today call "fly-over country" for everything that lies between the west bank of the Hudson River and San Francisco Bay. 1 - Chapter I, The Bolted Door, Part I2 - Chapter I continued The Bolted Door. Part II3 - Chapter II, His Father's Son4 - Chapter III The Daunt Diana5 - Chapter IV The Debt6 - Chapter V Full Circle7 - Chapter VI The Legend8 - Chapter VII The Eyes9 - Chapter 8 The Blond Beast10 - Chapter IX Afterward11 - Chapter X, The Letters, Part I12 - Chapter X The Letters, Part II Our Audiobooks are Complete and Unabridged (unless otherwise indicated)Our Audiobooks are always read by real people, never by computers.Please Note: These recorded readings are from the author's original works which are in the public domain. All recordings and artwork are in the public domain and there are no infringements or copyrights. Each track starts with "This is a LibriVox recording...."Although Librivox has graciously made these recordings available to the public domain, they are not associated with the sale of this product. Public domain books A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired or have been forfeited. In most countries the of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest copyright term is in Mexico, which has life plus 100 years for all deaths since July 1928. A notable exception is the United States, where every book and tale published before 1926 is in the public domain; American copyrights last for 95 years for books originally published between 1925 and 1978 if the copyright was properly registered and maintained.
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Features: Unabridged
Format: Audio CD
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Case Type: Paper Sleeve, No Case Included
Language: English
Book Title: Tales of Men and Ghosts
Author: Edith Wharton
Narrative Type: Fiction
Genre: General Fiction
Type: Short Stories
