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A novel first published in 1913. George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, is engaged to be married to a respectable widow, but when she asks for time to prepare her children for the marriage he is unsettled, and embarks on an affair that will affect all their lives. From the author of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.

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A complex, subtle and moving story of the ways in which people torment one another and the awful power of retrospective jealousy * PENELOPE LIVELY *

The Reef

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    A Paperback by Edith Wharton, Marilyn French

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 7 July 1983
      ISBN-13 9780860683728
      978-0860683728
      ISBN-10 0860683729
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      Book Synopsis
      A novel first published in 1913. George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, is engaged to be married to a respectable widow, but when she asks for time to prepare her children for the marriage he is unsettled, and embarks on an affair that will affect all their lives. From the author of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.

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      A complex, subtle and moving story of the ways in which people torment one another and the awful power of retrospective jealousy * PENELOPE LIVELY *

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