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Bunner Sisters

Author
Edith Wharton
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
3 hours 14 minutes
ISBN
9781802560237
Published
18 August 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • sisterhood
  • love
  • sacrifice
  • betrayal
  • poverty
  • clockmaker
  • New York
  • 19th-century
  • resilience
  • shopkeepers

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Description

In "Bunner Sisters," Edith Wharton explores the quiet, constrained lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner, sisters and shopkeepers in the changing landscape of late 19th-century New York. Their routine world shifts when Ann Eliza buys a secondhand clock for Evelina's birthday, introducing them to the enigmatic clockmaker Herman Ramy. What follows is a heartrending tale of love, sacrifice, and the harsh realities of poverty, as the sisters' bond is tested in ways they never anticipated.

Author

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was born into old New York money, married badly, and wrote her way into a life of her own — much of it in France. The House of Mirth follows a woman who cannot afford a misstep; The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer, the first for a woman in fiction. Drawing rooms, divorces, and the cost of being seen: she knew the furniture from the inside. Luxury is a trap with excellent lighting.

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