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Description for The Reckoning
Paperback. Features two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'
Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2015
Series
Penguin Little Black Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141397566
SKU
V9780141397566
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and ... Read more
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