Name: twilight sleep
SKU: 1568603
Price: 22.90 EUR
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9780684839646

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Scribner

Language

English

Pages

318

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x13.4x1.8 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0684839644

ISBN13

9780684839646

Synopsis "twilight sleep"

Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised bestseller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing--these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep. The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom, and emptiness of life through whatever form of "twilight sleep" they can devise or procure. Though the characters and their actions may seem more in keeping with today's society, this is still a classic Wharton tale of the upper crust and its undoing--wittily, masterfully told.

Edith Wharton

(Author)

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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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