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Xingu

Author
Edith Wharton
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
51 minutes
ISBN
9781802567809
Published
9 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
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The Lunch Club's self-assured literary ladies invite a celebrated author and are hilariously flummoxed by the mysterious term Xingu. Wharton's sharp satire of social polish, intellectual pretension, and the gap between talking about culture and knowing anything. Spoken as when conversation collapses the moment a real question appears.

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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