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Charity Royall is eighteen, bored with life in the small town of North Dormer. While working at the library, Charity meets visiting architect Lucius Harney and they become friends. Will their growing closeness lead to a happy marriage? Charity was born in an impoverished mountain community and her life is complicated by Mr. Royall who intruded into her bedroom when she was seventeen and later urged her to marry him. Lucius starts an affair with Charity Royall, all the while hiding the fact that he is engaged to society girl Annabel Balch. Edith Wharton, an American novelist and short story writer, most famous for her prize winning The Age of Innocence novel (ISBN: 9781909438828). Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. She was also a garden designer, interior designer, and spoke fluent French. Wharton was one of the few foreigners in France allowed to travel to the front lines during the First World War. Throughout the war she worked tirelessly in charitable efforts for refugees and, in 1916 was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of her commitment to the displaced. Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularl

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Max Bollinger : [distributor] Bertrams

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781909438828

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities