The Old Maid
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The Old Maid
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Narrated by:
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Eleanor Bron
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Written by:
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Edith Wharton
About this listen
The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her - the beautiful, upstanding Delia - and her true mother, her plain, unmarried ‘aunt’ Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life.
The three women live quietly together until Tina’s wedding day, when Delia’s and Charlotte’s hidden jealousies rush to the surface. Originally serialized in The Red Book magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake.
©2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc.What listeners say about The Old Maid
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- CKH
- 2025-01-02
Emotional, well written novella
I picked this up as I recalled a old B&W movie that I think was this story (in fact I am sure it was, as the end is the same), but that film was a tad more melodramatic than this lovely, affecting, emotional character study of two female cousins who both share the same daughter, one by birth and the other by adoption.
The prose is thoughtful, eloquent and insightful.
The narrator remained measured, never succumbing to a melodramatic flair (which this story, set in the 1850s, but published in the 1920s - could have easily tempted another reader.
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