Fiction · 1922
The Glimpses of the Moon
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are both too clever, too poor, and too used to other people's luxury to marry for anything but convenience — so they marry each other instead, on a shared understanding that either may end the arrangement the moment a genuinely wealthy match appears. Living on borrowed honeymoon houses and wedding-gift goodwill across Italy and France, they discover, in the way such books discover it, that the terms of their own bargain are harder to keep than they expected.
Edith Wharton published The Glimpses of the Moon in 1922, between the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence (1920) and her later novels of the 1920s, turning her eye for the comedy and cruelty of transactional marriage from old New York onto the freer, faster expatriate society of the postwar years.
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1862–1937 · Modern
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was born Edith Newbold Jones into old New York society, published her first book, on interior decoration, in 1897, and her first novel in 1902. The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920), which won the Pulitzer Prize, are the best known of more than forty books. She lived in France from 1907 and was decorated for her relief work in the First World War.
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