Old New York by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Old New York by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Old New York, Edith Wharton turns her sharp, compassionate eye on the drawing rooms, parlor staircases, and carefully guarded reputations of nineteenth-century Manhattan. This quartet of novellas follows four separate circles of family and friends as they navigate the rigid codes of 'Old New York' society, where taste is policed, marriages are negotiated like treaties, and a single indiscretion can echo for decades. In one story, a well-meaning idealist tries to bring European art and modern ideas home to a city determined to stay comfortable and conservative. In another, two women are bound together by an unspoken bargain that tests the limits of duty, loyalty, and love. Elsewhere, ambition and vanity collide at the edge of the fashionable world, where the right invitation can make a life and the wrong rumor can end it. And in a final tale, a marriage marked by secrecy forces a woman to measure freedom against the price of respectability. With wit, moral tension, and exquisite social detail, Wharton reveals how power, class, and gender shape private lives behind public manners.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:07) Chapter 02

(00:34:55) Chapter 03

(00:52:27) Chapter 04

(01:05:14) Chapter 05

(01:16:42) Chapter 06

(01:31:35) Chapter 07

(01:43:50) Chapter 08

(01:54:41) Chapter 09

(02:06:06) Chapter 10

(02:33:46) Chapter 11

(02:44:42) Chapter 12

(02:53:10) Chapter 13

(03:11:31) Chapter 14

(03:16:48) Chapter 15

(03:26:38) Chapter 16

(03:36:43) Chapter 17

(03:54:26) Chapter 18

(04:07:55) Chapter 19

(04:21:43) Chapter 20

(04:54:21) Chapter 21

(05:08:15) Chapter 22

(05:29:17) Chapter 23

(05:53:24) Chapter 24

(06:08:18) Chapter 25

(06:32:41) Chapter 26

(06:50:21) Chapter 27

(07:01:32) Chapter 28

(07:14:29) Chapter 29

(07:39:04) Chapter 30

(07:58:56) Chapter 31

(08:32:04) Chapter 32

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