Van Wyck Brooks begins with a minor figure in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: Ned Winsett, a man of letters born into a world that had no need of letters. He sold a hundred and twenty copies of his book and gave up.
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About this audiobook
Van Wyck Brooks begins with a minor figure in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: Ned Winsett, a man of letters born into a world that had no need of letters. He sold a hundred and twenty copies of his book and gave up. Brooks sees in this the fate of the writer's life in America.
This essay comes from Civilization in the United States, a 1922 collection edited by Harold Stearns. Read by Eleesha Lewis in fifty-two minutes.
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Details
Length
52 min
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Released
August 2026
Publisher
Academy Voices
Language
English
ISBN
9798182620925
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This edition of The Literary Life (from Civilization in the United States) by Van Wyck Brooks is narrated by Eleesha Lewis.
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