The reckoning

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'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Wharton's works available in Penguin Classics are Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth.

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Autor: Edith Wharton

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EDITH WHARTON

Edith Wharton (Nova York, 1862-1937) pertencia a uma das famílias mais ilustres de Nova York. Em 1905, com o romance best-seller The House of Mirth, demonstrou sua capacidade de agradar o grande público. Ao longo da vida, publicou mais de quarenta títulos, entre romances, contos, poesias e ensaios. A época da inocência, de 1920, é sua obra mais famosa, com a qual venceu o prêmio Pulitzer, em 1921.