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The Reef
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Reef
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Edith Wharton
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Introduction by Marilyn French
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| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:368 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 126 |
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| Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780860683728
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.52 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Little, Brown Book Group
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| Imprint |
Virago Press Ltd
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| Publication Date |
7 July 1983 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, the first love of her youth, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau to await her future: between two short distances can anything happen to disrupt such promise But the charming Sophie Viner, governess to Anna's young daughter, holds the key to a secret which comes to reveal that Anna's future - and the very foundation of her life - is fragile where it appears most strong.
Author Biography
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born in New York. After 1902 she went on to publish an average of more than a book a year for the rest of her life. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE won the Pulitzer Prize in the year it was published, 1920, and was made into a major film in 1993. One of America's greatest novelists, Edith Wharton died in France at the age of seventy-five.
Reviews'A complex, subtle and moving story of the ways in which people torment one another and the awful power of retrospective jealousy' PENELOPE LIVELY
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