The Reef

ISBN: 0786162090

Author: Wharton, Edith

Condition: New

Product Description A casual affair becomes the reef on which four lives are in danger of foundering: two of them innocent, and two of whom are burdened with experience and tinged with desperation About the Author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born in New York and is best known for her stories of life among the upper-class society into which she was born. She was educated privately at home and in Europe. In 1894 she began writing fiction, and her novel The House of Mirth established her as a leading writer. Her novels The Age of Innocence and Old New York were each awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She was the first woman to receive that honor. In 1929 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction.