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    Sanctuary
    Sanctuary
    Sanctuary
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    Sanctuary

    By Edith Wharton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1970
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    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

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    • 3/5
      Kate marries a man she knows to be morally deficient in order to protect whatever unborn children he may have from his moral lapses. Fast forward and Kate is now widowed and living with the son she had with this man. The son Dick is an architect, and through various circumstances the moral choices Kate feared her husband's children might one day face are now imminent.This theme of moral choices and what makes a person "good" reminded me of the first Litsy Wharton read, The Touchstone (see >179 arubabookwoman:), only this time the issue is explored from the woman's point of view. Then it turned into a sort of nature v. nurture kind of thing. Wharton writes beautifully, and there are hints of the intricacies of her later novels in this short work. I'm glad to have read this.3 stars
    • 3/5
      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.

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