Edith Wharton
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audioknihaEdith WhartonDetektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads Afterward (EN)
Edith Wharton: “You won’t know till afterward. You won’t know till long, long afterward. ” When Ned and Mary Boyne hear that their new house is haunted, they laugh it off and joke that every good house in the countryside must have a ghost for it to be worth purchasing.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Descent of Man (EN)
Edith Wharton: “I tell you there’s nothing the public likes as much as convictions – they’ll always follow a man who believes in his own ideas. And this book is just on the line of popular interest. ” Professor Linyard is a man of science. And when he writes a book
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audioknihaEdith Wharton
Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Eyes (EN)
Edith Wharton: “Phil, my dear boy, really — what’s the matter? Why don’t you answer? Have you seen the eyes?” An older gentleman invites a group of friends over for dinner and to discuss the supernatural. Afterwards, when only two guests remain, he tells them a story
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audioknihaEdith Wharton
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The Age of Innocence (EN)
Edith Wharton: Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May’s cousin Ellen
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audioknihaEdith Wharton
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Ethan Frome (EN)
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. Ethan Frome tells the story of
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audioknihaEdith Wharton
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Summer (EN)
Edith Wharton: Wharton’s 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate advances of her guardian Mr. Royall, wh
