..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
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About Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was a 19th-century American writer and designer. Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Marriage — Partnership, commitment, and the journey of shared life