The Reef
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0684824442
ISBN-13
9780684824444
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Imprint
Scribner
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 6th, 1996
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
288 grams
Dimensions
13.20 x 20.40 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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When the widowed Anna Leath asks George Darrow for time to prepare her children before their marriage, Darrow drifts into an affair. The consequences of this relationship are far-reaching in this exploration of the many faces of sexuality.
"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, 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 naive and impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for success. For its dramatic construction and acute insight into social mores and the multifaceted problem of sexuality, The Reef stands as one of Edith Wharton's most daring works of fiction.
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