Selected Shorts: Edith Wharton
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story has toured to the Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and other writers.
Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle.
Mrs. Manstey's View, read by Kathleen Chalfant
Roman Fever, read by Maria Tucci
The Reckoning, read by Brenda Wehle
Xingu, read by Christina Pickles
Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The series originates at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.
Customer Reviews
Be warned: Stories heavily abridged!
These stories are read expressively and entertainingly by trained actors, but contrary to the title, they are absolutely not “unabridged”. They were heavily edited. The story Xinghu, for example, probably contains no more than 1/3 of Wharton’s actual text. Whoever did the editing did not merely leave out boring description material, but often some of the funniest dialogue.