The Reef
About this book
The Reef is Edith Wharton's novel of romance and moral complication among Americans in France, centering on a diplomat and the widow he hopes to marry. Readers drawn to psychological love stories and Wharton's studies of social convention will find it rewarding.
Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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