The Descent of Man and Other Stories The Descent of Man and Other Stories

The Descent of Man and Other Stories

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Publisher Description

This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York society at the turn of the twentieth century (two stories, however, are set in Italy). Fidelity is only one problem; others may arise from the machinations and emotions of the protagonists or outsiders. Wharton handles the questions with her usual gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) irony and curiosity about human behavior.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1937
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
285
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
203.3
KB
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