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"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.
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Mary BartonWritten By - Elizabeth GaskellNarrated By - Full cast ProductionPublished By - BBC Audiobooks LtdLength - 4 hours 35 minutesCategories - Classic Literature
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Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 2Written By - Sir Thomas MaloryNarrated By - Frederick DavidsonPublished By - Blackstone Audio IncLength - 17 hours 30 minutesCategories - Classic LiteratureDownload Price - $33.95
" Le Morte d'Arthur remains an enchanted sea for the reader to swim about in,
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Crome YellowWritten By - Aldous HuxleyNarrated By - Robert WhitfieldPublished By - Blackstone Audio IncLength - 6 hoursCategories - Classic LiteratureDownload Price - $14.95
Aldous Huxley here introduces us to an amiable group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian painting are just a few of the subjects for discussion among the eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an... See full description...
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