Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.
‘All Souls’ is a creepy Hallowe’en story about a woman who lives with her servants in a remote house in Connecticut. One weekend at the end of October, she has an accident and breaks her ankle…and then follow the most terrifying and mysterious 36 hours of her life.
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" This short story by American author, Edith Wharton is good but the narration is absolutely horrific and I would discourage anyone from listening to it for that reason. "
— Wanda, 6/5/2018" I love Edith Wharton but this radio narration was simply horrible! The reader spoke low so I had to continually increase the volume, and her inflection or accent was odd. "
— Wanda, 5/28/2018Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is the author of the novels The Age of Innocence and Old New York, both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the first woman to receive that honor. In 1929 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. She was born in New York and is best known for her stories of life among the upper-class society into which she was born. She was educated privately at home and in Europe. In 1894 she began writing fiction, and her novel The House of Mirth established her as a leading writer.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.