Edith Wharton BBC Radio Drama Collection

American author Edith Wharton is renowned for her merciless satires of marriage and money, set in the upper-class milieu into which she was born. Included here are a superb selection of her novels, short stories and plays, recorded for BBC Radio - as well as two programmes exploring her life and work. Includes: The House of Mirth, Madame de Treymes, The Reef, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country, Ethan Frome and The Shadow of a Doubt.

Also includes Great Lives: Edith Wharton - Naomi Wolf joins presenter Matthew Paris to talk about Wharton and her work and In Our Time: Edith Wharton - Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels of America's Gilded Age.