Product Overview
Four stories writtenby the great American fiction writer Edith Wharton and read byterrific actors, includingMaria Tucciand Kathleen Chalfant, make up thistwo-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,Whartonis 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.
