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Written by Edith Wharton - Audio book performed by Kate Nelligan - Abridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES

Publisher, Random House Audio (1993)

In gas-lit 1870s New York, when society people "dread scandal more than disease", affable and affluent Newland Archer is deeply troubled. Seemingly content to live out his years in a conventional and moribund marriage to May, he is forced to confront an overwhelming passion for the bizarre and challenging Countess Ellen Olenska. To follow such a passion would put everything at risk - his family, his name, and his position in New York society. But is not an all-consuming love worth more than the superficial values of the elite . . ?

About the Reader: Kate Nelligan's theater credits include As You Like It and Plenty, for which she won the London critics' Best Actress Award. She has appeared in the films Dracula, The Prince of Tides, and Frankie and Johnny.