The Reef

Name: The Reef
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780860683728

Edith Wharton

01/01/1983
Little

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Reef par Edith Wharton

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Revue de presse A complex, subtle and moving story of the ways in which people torment one another and the awful power of retrospective jealousy ( PENELOPE LIVELY) Biographie de l'auteur Edith Wharton was born in 1862 in New York, and later lived in Rhode Island and France. Her first novel, T he Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, and by 1913 she was writing at least one book a year. During the First World War she was awarded the Cross of the Legion d'Honneur and the Order of Leopold. In 1920, The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize; she was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from Yale University and in 1930 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters. She died in 1937.