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    Sanctuary (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By Edith Wharton

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    In New York City’s high society, Kate Orme, a young widow, struggles to raise a son who will be free of the moral flaws of his father, Denis. Her son, Dick, will face similar situations as his father, but can he resolve himself to act morally? In this 1903 novella, Wharton’s gifts for acute social and psychological observation are on fine display.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 22, 2011
    ISBN9781411442306
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    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Having grown up in an upper-class, tightly controlled society known as “Old New York” at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage, Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of that society’s fiercest critics as well as one of America’s greatest writers. The author of more than 40 books in 40 years, Wharton’s oeuvre includes classic works of American literature such as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome, as well as authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel.

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      A very entertaining psychological drama played out first between the main character, Kate Peyton, and her fiance and then later between mother and son. Kate becomes aware before her marriage of a sinister weakness in her fiance and yet marries him so that she will be able to guard any of his progeny against a similar weakness. Left a widow early, she zealously devotes her life to instilling the principles in her son she deems necessary to ward off this weakness of character which she is afraid her son has inherited. The time comes when Kate is forced to sit back and await her son's decision while he agonizes alone with a moral crisis in his own life. An interesting plot written with the skill of a master story-teller.