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In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included... Read Full Overview

Kate Orme is a young woman whose future happy marriage is shattered when she comes face to face with a dark secret kept by her fianc, Denis Peyton, a wealthy man with a past governed by lies and deceit. When the couple has a son and Denis dies, Kate becomes convinced that her... Read Full Overview

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As her marriage to an eminent and wealthy bachelor approaches, Kate Orme should feel nothing but bliss. But when she learns of Denis's guilty secret, she becomes painfully aware of her fianc?'s flawed morality. Determined that no child of hers should inherit such character traits,... Read Full Overview

Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and marry Denis, however, as a selfless gesture to protect... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1903, Sanctuary is an early and short novella that examines the moral choices facing Kate Orme when faced firstly with uncomfortable revelations about her fianc? Denis and years later when their son, Dick, is forced to deal with similar circumstances... Read Full Overview

It is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy: the sensation is too much the result of selection and elimination to be within reach of the awakening clutch on life. But Kate Orme, for once, had yielded herself to happiness; letting it permeate every faculty... Read Full Overview

"Sanctuary", by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton was pulitzer prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer (1862-1937).

The sense of general providentialness on which Mrs. Peyton reposed had in fact been confirmed by events which reduced Denis's mourning to a mere tribute of respect-since it would have been a mockery to deplore the disappearance of any one who had left behind him such an unsavory... Read Full Overview

Sanctuary was published in 1903 - only her third published fictional work, after The Touchstone (another novella) and The Valley of Decision. But if you have read any Wharton at all, the paragraph quoted above could serve as a synopsis of a condition that will feature in almost... Read Full Overview

It is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy: the sensation istoo much the result of selection and elimination to be within reach of theawakening clutch on life. But Kate Orme, for once, had yielded herself to happiness;letting it permeate every faculty... Read Full Overview

A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into human sanctuary, a safe place for humans, such as a political... Read Full Overview

""The Sanctuary"" is a novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the early 20th century and revolves around the life of a young woman named Kate Orme. Kate is a widow who is struggling to find meaning in her life after the death of her husband. She becomes involved... Read Full Overview

In novels like The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton demonstrated a remarkable talent for exposing the dark underbelly of American high society. In Sanctuary, the tale of doomed marriage propped up by the protagonist's altruism, Wharton further explores the... Read Full Overview