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  • Published: 26 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141397573
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64

The Reckoning



Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary

'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature...'

  • Published: 26 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141397573
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64

About the author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.

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