Twilight sleep by Edith Wharton
"Twilight Sleep" by Edith Wharton is a novel published in 1927. Set in Jazz Age New York, it follows a wealthy socialite family whose carefully maintained facade begins to crumble. As they struggle to save one marriage, hidden affairs and avoidance threaten to unravel everything. Through shifting perspectives, Wharton satirizes a society obsessed with efficiency and escaping pain, where characters desperately seek quick fixes rather than confronting uncomfortable truths. The story builds
toward a violent climax that forces nothing to change. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 |
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| LoC No. | 27011209 |
| Title | Twilight sleep |
| Original Publication | United States: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. |
| Note | Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Sleep_(novel) |
| Credits | Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Upper class -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 70844 |
| Release Date | May 23, 2023 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 17, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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