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In Morocco by Edith Wharton
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In Morocco

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Narrator Anna Fields
Length 4 hours 53 minutes
Language English
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"To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guidebook, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the most replete sightseer. The sensation is attainable by any one who will take the trouble to row out into the harbor of Algeciras and scramble onto a little black boat headed across the straits."

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 way, she witnessed religious ceremonies and ritual dances, visited the opulent palaces of the sultan, and was admitted to the mysterious world of his harem.

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American author best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born. Educated privately at home and in Europe, she married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker, in 1885. Her marriage was emotionally disappointing, if not disastrous, and she suffered a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. About this time she began to write fiction. Her major literary model was Henry James, whom she knew, and her work reveals James’ concern for form and ethical issues.

Her novel The Valley of Decision was published in 1902, followed in 1905 by the critical and popular success of The House of Mirth, which established her as a leading writer. After 1907 Wharton lived in France, visiting the United States only at rare intervals. In 1913 she was divorced from her husband.

In the two decades following The House of Mirth, she wrote The Reef (1912), The Custom of the Country (1913), Summer (1917), and the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Innocence (1920). She was the first woman to receive that honor. Her best known work, however, was the long tale Ethan Frome (1911).

She wrote some thirty books in all, including an autobiography, A Backward Glance (1934). She died in France in 1937. 

Kate Fleming (1965–2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.

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Reviews

“Wharton on the road is an inexhaustible joy.”

“There was no guide book to the country before this one...[her] descriptions brim with life and colour.”

“Since the audio is a first-person account, the narration apparently is being told by Wharton herself. For her fans, that places a large burden on Fields, who meets the challenge. Her voice is forceful, intelligent, textured, and clear…The way she handles foreign words is masterful.”

“Wharton’s language alternates between unimpassioned frankness and voluptuous description of Morocco’s staggering natural and cultural beauty. Anna Fields takes her cue from the text, delivering a clipped and assured reading when Wharton discusses conveyance, history, and other mundane matters, and an unhurried, even dreamy, reading of Wharton’s sensuous and evocative descriptions.”

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