Sign In Join Now
User Accessibility
  • Increase Font

  • Invert Colours

Search for a Book Browse Books Menu
The Mission of Jane Cover Play Sample

Sample may contain unsuitable content.

Stream / Download

Audiobook streaming provided by:

OverDrive Logo

Share this book:

The Mission of Jane

AuthorEdith Wharton

NarratorHarriet Walter

Duration45m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Short Stories

PublisherCSA Word

VersionUnabridged

  Save to Wish List
  Add to Favourites List

Edith Wharton displays typical expertise in this portrayal of high society tensions. Jane Lethbury surprises and confounds her husband in asking him to let her adopt a baby.

0 (0 Reviews)
0
0
0
0
0

Related Titles

The Custom of the Country Cover

The Custom of the Country

Author: Edith Wharton

The Custom of the Country

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Full Cast

Duration 2h 49m

The play follows the beautiful Undine Spragg as she arrives in New York and sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, then travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. Will Undine ever find real happiness?

View Book
The House of Mirth Cover

The House of Mirth

Author: Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Anna Fields

Duration 13h 41m

Set among the elegant brownstones and opulent country houses of turn-of-the-century upper-class New York, Edith Wharton's first great novel is a precise, satiric portrayal of what the author herself called "a society of irresponsible pleasure-seekers." Her brilliantly complex characterization of the doomed Lily Bart, whose stunning beauty and depen...

View Book
The Reef Cover

The Reef

Author: Edith Wharton

The Reef

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Kristen Underwood

Duration 10h 42m

The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel, Edith Wharton visited England, Sicily, and Germany, among other locations. Anna Leath is a young widow, an Americ...

View Book
The Age of Innocence Cover

The Age of Innocence

Author: Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Full Cast, Andrew Wincott

Duration 1h 53m

A full-cast Unabridged of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York. In the exclusive world of upper-class New York, in which attendance at balls and dinner passes for occupation, Newland Archer anticipates his marriage to May Welland, a b...

View Book
The Touchstone Cover

The Touchstone

Author: Edith Wharton

The Touchstone

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Grace Conlin

Duration 2h 58m

This spare, mesmerizing novel is Edith Wharton's money-can't-buy-happiness tale. Young Stephen Glennard is poor, but he has an unanticipated gambling chip: a collection of love letters from a scorned but now famous lover, the distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn. To raise money for his forthcoming wedding to another woman, Stephen stoops to sellin...

View Book
Glimpses of the Moon Cover

Glimpses of the Moon

Author: Edith Wharton

Glimpses of the Moon

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Anna Fields

Duration 8h 56m

Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. Bo...

View Book
Summer Cover

Summer

Author: Edith Wharton

Summer

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Grace Conlin

Duration 5h 35m

Wharton's most erotic and lyrical novel, Summer explores a daring theme for 1917: a woman's awakening to her sexuality. Eighteen-year-old Charity Royall lives in the small town of North Dormer, ignorant of desire until the arrival of architect Lucius Harney. Independent yet kept from love until now by society's expectations, Charity finds herself w...

View Book
In Morocco Cover

In Morocco

Author: Edith Wharton

In Morocco

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Anna Fields

Duration 4h 53m

A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is Edith Wharton's remarkable account of her journey to that country during World War I. With her characteristic sense of adventure, Wharton set out to explore Morocco and its people, traveling by military jeep to Rabat, Moulay Idriss, Fez, and Marrakech, from the Atlantic coast to the high Atlas. Along the w...

View Book
Atrophy Cover

Atrophy

Author: Edith Wharton

Atrophy

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Harriet Walter

Duration 29m

In ''Atrophy,'' an unhappily married matron named Nora Fenway hears that her one-time clandestine lover, Christopher, is severely ill; she risks her reputation by going to visit him, but is turned away by his sanctimonious sister. A heartbreaking tale which emphasises the importance of human bonds but also examines the restraints we endure at the h...

View Book
Ethan Frome Cover

Ethan Frome

Author: Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome

Author Edith Wharton

Narrator Richard Thomas

Duration 3h 40m

Conventional and circumstance bind the young Ethan Frome to a wife he cannot love. Grimly resigned to his fate, he sees for himself a life as bleak and constricted as the New England farm on which he lives. Then the appearance in his bleak personal landscape of his ailing wife's orphaned young cousin, Mattie Silver, rouses in Ethan a fierce passion...

View Book