Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Wharton, Edith |
| Publisher: | Pushkin Press Classics |
| Date: | 4/2/2024 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A young couple’s love is threatened by the destructive power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age
In this beautiful novel, Edith Whartonperceptively describes theseductions and temptations of high societywith all her trademark witand irony.
Nick Lansing and SusyBranch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are inlove and decide to marry, but they realise their chances of happinessare slim without the wealth and status that their more privilegedfriends take for granted.
Nick and Susy agree to separatewhenever either encounters a more eligible proposition. However, as theyhoneymoon in friends’ lavish houses, from a villa on Lake Como to aVenetian palace, jealous passions and troubled consciences cause theidyll to crumble.
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