Name: The Children
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Author: Edibooks ; Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781534957817

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Illustrated by

Edibooks

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

274

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9781534957817

Synopsis "The Children"

A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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