| The Reef by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Classics Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598183729 ISBN-13: 9781598183726 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Written in 1912, "The Reef" presents a minutely rendered anatomy of social ambiguity, focused on the intricately independent lives of three American expatriates in France. Brilliant and compelling, the work serves as a revealing document in modern sexual history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1110 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When she was young, Anna Summers married a wealthy American named Fraser Leath, whose one real passion was his collection of snuffboxes. Really Wouldn't you just know how well that'd work out? And then Mr. Snuffbox snuffs it, and Anna runs into an old acquaintance, George Darrow, who "still" wants to marry her. Until he gets involved with a poor girl named Sophie Viner . . . It sounds like the stuff of soap opera, but this is an Edith Wharton novel. And it really is something special, even if the plot does sound like something from "The Days of Our Lives," If you haven't read Edith Wharton, you're in for a treat. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - "Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt." |