Originally published in 1907, this little known novel by the author of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was considered controversial for its frank treatment of labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, divorce, and second marriages.John Amherst, an idealistic...
Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the...
Originally published in 1907, this little known novel by the author of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was considered controversial for its frank treatment of labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, divorce, and second marriages.John Amherst, an...
The Fruit of the Tree is a novel by Edith Wharton written in 1907. The novel tries to deal with issues such as euthanasia, the problems of labor and industrial conditions, and professions for women. When first published it received mixed reviews, and critics (I don't know who...
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The Fruit of the Tree is a novel by Edith Wharton written in 1907. The novel tries to deal with issues such as euthanasia, the problems of labor and industrial conditions, and professions for women. When first published it received mixed reviews, and critics (I don't know who...
Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First published in 1907.
IN the surgical ward of the Hope Hospital at Hanaford, a nurse was bending over a young man whose bandaged right hand and arm lay stretched along the bed. His head stirred uneasily, and slipping her arm behind him she effected a professional readjustment of the pillows. "Is that...
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