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Reef
Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author)

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ISBN: 0684824442     ISBN-13: 9780684824444
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
OUR PRICE: $19.94  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 1996
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Annotation: Anna Leath, an American widow living in France, has renewed her relationship with her first love, diplomat George Darrow. But on his way to her beautiful French chateau, Givre, where he hopes to consolidate their marriage plans, Darrow encounters Sophy Viner, who is as vibrant and spontaneous as Anna is reserved and restrained. Sophy's subsequent employment as governess to Anna's daughter means that her fate becomes inextricably entwined with that of the family at Givre. And what to Darrow is a forgotten interlude becomes the reef on which the lives of four people are in danger of foundering.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 96015104
Lexile Measure: 1090(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.38" W x 8" L (0.63 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
I put most of myself into that opus, Edith Wharton said of The Reef, possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard Berenson told Henry Adams, better than any previous work excepting Ethan Frome.
A challenge to the moral climate of the day, The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath. Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naive and impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for success.
For its dramatic construction and acute insight into social mores and the multifaceted problem of sexuality, The Reef stands as one of Edith Wharton's most daring works of fiction

Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist--the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921--as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Born into one of New York's elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
 
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