Hudson River Bracketed

by Edith Wharton

Overview

One of Edith Wharton's unjustly neglected novels, Hudson River Bracketed features two strong protagonists - Vance Weston and Halo Spear. The former is an undereducated young man who arrives in New York with a keen desire to write. Halo Spear is a brilliant, accomplished young woman who introduces Vance to literature and they form a deep bond, which flourishes and endures despite the hardships of Vance's life, the disappointments of Halo's - and their respective marriages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789353365752
Publisher:	Lector House
Publication date:	05/20/2019
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Edith Newbold Wharton (née Jones; January 24, 1862-August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

Kate Reading is an Audie Award-winning narrator and has received numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine. Other Spoken Realms audiobooks: The Letters of Jane Austen; Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey; The Prophet, co-narrated with husband Michael Kramer, who also narrated Wanderer of the Wasteland. Kate and Michael record at their studio in Maryland.

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe