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A Turn of the Century Novel of Forbidden Love by Edith Wharton "He picked up his companion's bundles, and offered her an arm which enabled her to press her slight person more closely under his umbrella" The Reef by popular Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton... Read Full Overview

"I put most of myself into that opus," Edith Wharton said of "The Reef," possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard Berenson told Henry Adams, "better than any previous work excepting "Ethan Frome."" A challenge to the moral climate of the day,... Read Full Overview

About The Reef The Reef by American author Edith Wharton is a book of literary fiction first published in 1912 in the US. ' Some day she would find the magic bridge between West Fifty-fifth Street and life; once or twice she had even fancied that the clue was in her hand. The... Read Full Overview

"I put most of myself into that opus," Edith Wharton said of The Reef, possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard Berenson told Henry Adams, "better than any previous work excepting Ethan Frome."
A challenge to the moral climate... Read Full Overview

"Unexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth. Anna."All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had hammered the words of the telegram into George Darrow's ears, ringing every change of irony on its commonplace syllables: rattling them out like a discharge of... Read Full Overview

The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel,... Read Full Overview

The reef

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel,... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover... Read Full Overview

The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company.

The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath. Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly na├ ve and impecunious young woman... Read Full Overview

The Reef (1912) is one of Edith Wharton's finest and most compelling novels, admired greatly by Henry James. A minutely rendered anatomy of social ambiguity, focused on the intricately interdependent lives of three American expatriates in France, The Reef is also an obliquely... Read Full Overview

"Please don't come till thirtieth." That was all. Not the shadow of an excuse or a regret; not even the perfunctory "have written" with which it is usual to soften such blows. She didn't want him, and had taken the shortest way to tell him so. Even in his first moment of exasperation... Read Full Overview

The Reef is a novel written by Edith Wharton and published in 1912. The story revolves around Anna Leath, a young widow who falls in love with a man named George Darrow. However, their relationship is complicated by the fact that Darrow had previously been in a relationship with... Read Full Overview

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The Reef is a novel written by Edith Wharton, first published in 1912. The story revolves around the lives of four characters: Anna Leath, a young widow; her fianc�����, George Darrow; her former lover, Owen Leath; and Owen's wife, Sophy Viner... Read Full Overview