In the title story, a refined ladies’ lunch club and its members’ pretensions to cultural understanding, come under Edith Wharton’s keen satiric eye. Also included in this 1916 collection are “Coming Home, ” “Autres Temps, ” “Kerfol, ” “The Long Run, ” “The Triumph of Night, ” “The Choice, ” and “Bunner Sisters.”
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Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an acclaimed chronicler and keen observer of privileged society, novelist, and short story writer. Her novel The Age of Innocence made her the first female Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 1921. She is the also the author of The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 452 ● ISBN 9781411443815 ● Dimensione 0.4 MB ● Età 99-17 anni ● Casa editrice Barnes & Noble ● Pubblicato 2011 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5863140 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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