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An edition of The Reef (1912)

The reef

a novel

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The Reef, a semi-autobiographical novel that attacks the hypocrisies of New York society of which author Edith Wharton had long been a member, was praised by contemporaries as her best work since Ethan Frome. The novel challenged the morality of the times in the person of George Darrow, a diplomat who drifts into an affair with another woman after his proposal of marriage to widow Anna Leath receives a cool response.

When The Reef appeared in 1912, reviewers found Edith Wharton's novel of American expatriates in France sordid and even shocking. George Darrow, an American diplomat, is in love with the recently widowed Anna Leath. On his way to visit her in France, he finds himself accompanying Sophy Viner, a young American he has briefly met in the past, on her way to Paris. A minutely rendered anatomy of social ambiguity, the implications of this Parisian prologue inform the remainder of the novel, as Darrow's, Anna's, and Sophy's lives become increasingly and intricately interdependent. Obliquely but intensely autobiographical, written following the dissolution of her marriage and her move from America to France, The Reef explores Wharton's ambivalent sense of both her newly adopted country and her unexpectedly awakened sexuality. A brilliant and compelling work, it is both a neglected and genuinely distinguished novel and a revealing document in modern sexual history.

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English
Pages
366

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Cover of: The Reef
The Reef
2009-09-29, LibriVox
in English
Cover of: The Reef
The Reef
2008-07-12, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: The reef
The reef
1996, Scribner Paperback Fiction
in English - 1st Scribner paperback fiction ed.
Cover of: Reef
Reef
1996, Everyman
in English
Cover of: The reef.
The reef.
1965, Scribner
in English
Cover of: The reef, a novel
The reef, a novel
1914, C. Scribner
in English
Cover of: The reef
The reef: a novel
1912, D. Appleton and Company
in English
Cover of: The Reef
The Reef
1912, Syndicate Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: THE REEF A NOVEL
Cover of: The reef
The reef: a novel
1912, D. Appleton
in English

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New York

Edition Notes

Davis Wharton
Melish Wharton
Advertisements on p. [3]-[10] at end.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.W555 Re, PS3545.H16 Re

The Physical Object

Pagination
[6], 366, [12] p. (last 2 p. blank) ;
Number of pages
366

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6548372M
Internet Archive
thereefnovel00whar
LCCN
12025996
OCLC/WorldCat
276134
Library Thing
218569

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