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- Published: 4 July 2019
- ISBN: 9780241422250
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
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A stunning new edition of Edith Wharton's classic novel
'She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air'
Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated New England village stifles her, and his behaviour increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect visits for the summer, it offers Charity the chance for adventure, even hope for a new life. But as they embark on an intense affair, will it bring her freedom, or another kind of trap?
- Published: 4 July 2019
- ISBN: 9780241422250
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
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About the author
Edith Wharton was born in New York City on January 24, 1862. Edith married Teddy Wharton, who was 12 years older. They lived a life of relative ease with homes in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Edith became a prolific writer and produced over 40 books in 40 years.
Edith divorced Teddy in 1912, having no immediate heirs, and never married again. She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novels became so popular that Ms. Wharton was able to live comfortably on her earnings the rest of her life. Edith continued to write until a stroke took her life in August 1937.