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A late and penetrating novel by Edith Wharton exploring exile, reputation, and the fragile negotiations between mother and daughter.

First published in 1925, A Mother's Recompense centres on Kate Clephane, a woman who years earlier abandoned her marriage... Read Full Overview

Kate Clephane has lived in exile in France since leaving her husband and infant daughter. She is being called back to New York by her now adult daughter to attend her daughter's wedding. Complicating already complicated matters her daughter is engaged to her one time lover Chris... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win... Read Full Overview

A late and penetrating novel by Edith Wharton exploring exile, reputation, and the fragile negotiations between mother and daughter.

First published in 1925, A Mother's Recompense centres on Kate Clephane, a woman who years earlier abandoned her marriage... Read Full Overview

Kate Clephane has lived in exile in France since leaving her husband and infant daughter. She is being called back to New York by her now adult daughter to attend her daughter's wedding. Complicating already complicated matters her daughter is engaged to her one time lover Chris... Read Full Overview

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Kate Clephane despert , como de costumbre, cuando un rayo del sol de la costa Azul cay en diagonal sobre su cama. Eso era lo que m s le gustaba de la habitaci n estrecha y deslucida del hotel de tercera categor a, el hotel de Minorque et de l'Univers: que por la ventana se filtrase... Read Full Overview

Kate Clephane has lived in exile in France since leaving her husband and infant daughter. She is being called back to New York by her now adult daughter to attend her daughter's wedding. Complicating already complicated matters her daughter is engaged to her one time lover Chris... Read Full Overview

Kate Clephane has lived in exile in France since leaving her husband and infant daughter. She is being called back to New York by her now adult daughter to attend her daughter's wedding. Complicating already complicated matters her daughter is engaged to her one time lover Chris... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton, the celebrated author of "The Age of Innocence," explores the complexities of mothers and daughters in "The Mother's Recompense," a poignant novel set against the glamorous backdrop of the French Riviera. This literary fiction delves into the intricate web of... Read Full Overview

Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infant daughter. Oddly enough,... Read Full Overview

Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infant daughter.Oddly enough, Kate... Read Full Overview

Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infant daughter.Oddly enough, Kate... Read Full Overview

Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infant daughter. Oddly enough,... Read Full Overview

Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infant daughter. Oddly enough,... Read Full Overview

Kate Clephane was wakened, as usual, by the slant of Riviera sun across her bed. It was the thing she liked best about her shabby cramped room in the third-rate H tel de Minorque et de l'Univers: that the morning sun came in at her window, and yet that it didn't come too early.No... Read Full Overview