Bunner Sisters


Read by Margaret Espaillat

(4.4 stars; 108 reviews)

“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a "very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a side street already doomed to decline." Shabby as it is, the sisters are happy in their small orderly community of supportive women. The story tells of the destruction of this life, and how the once content sisters are thrown into the realistic world outside of their little shop. (Summary by Margaret) (3 hr 24 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1 16:29 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 2 20:33 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 3 8:03 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 4 9:49 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 5 12:53 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 6 7:47 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 7 21:38 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 8 19:21 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 9 17:55 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 10 19:49 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 11 23:37 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 12 11:43 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Chapter 13 14:24 Read by Margaret Espaillat

Reviews

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(4 stars)

A fine insightful, profound, yet at times hurmorous short novel by the great writer Edith Wharton. However she was wrong about top down social reform. Most successful reform comes from the bottom up. from the grass roots majority. sincerely dahszil male usa dahszil, me: i pray and hope for the end of the US empire and restoration of the free, fair, an more distribution of wealth US republic and as a peaceful, loving, contributor member of the world's family of nations)

I listened to it yet again


(5 stars)

Sad sad story. Old New York City. Superbly read by Margaret Espaillat. I don't know what the the 2015 reviewer is going on about. Not this book.

loved it!


(5 stars)

Good story but I don’t think Wharton ever wrote a bad one.


(5 stars)

Awesome story. Very real life story. The reader was really good as well.

Bummer Sisters


(4 stars)

Short book loaded. with characters that are full and rich. Their struggles to just get by do not take away from them, by T add all to well Known concept of content with little or plenty.

Behind the gild of NY Gilded Age. Quiet reader, but we'll done.


(4 stars)

The reader has a real touch telling such a languid tale.


(5 stars)


(5 stars)

A sad story, brilliantly written. The reading was excellent. Highly recommend