Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 1

Name: Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 1
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Charlotte Mew
ISBN: 9781907416057

Author: Charlotte Mew, Charlotte Perkins Gilmore, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Ann Lamb, Mary Braddon, William J. Locke

Narrator: Harriet Walter

Unabridged: 4 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: CSA Word

Published: 11/30/2020

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

This selection of stories relates the many experiences and complexities of womanhood; sometimes joyful, sometimes sad but always enriching. With stories by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Gaskell – it includes Ladies in Lavender by William J. Locke, the inspiration for the film of the same name starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
Narrated by Harriet Walter, a popular British actress whose movie and tv credits include Atonement, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Netflix’s The Crown.

About Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York, and later lived in Rhode Island and France. Her first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, and by 1913 she was writing at least one book a year. During the First World War she was awarded the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur and the Order of Leopold. In 1920, The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize; she was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and in 1930 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters. She died in 1937.

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