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The age of desire : a novel

Reimagines the midlife world of Edith Wharton and the impact of her affair with a young journalist on her longtime friendship with disapproving literary secretary Anna Bahlmann, in a tale told against the backdrop of Gilded Age Paris.

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  • "Reimagines the midlife world of Edith Wharton and the impact of her affair with a young journalist on her longtime friendship with disapproving literary secretary Anna Bahlmann, in a tale told against the backdrop of Gilded Age Paris."
  • "Reimagines the midlife world of Edith Wharton and the impact of her affair with a young journalist on her longtime friendship with disapproving literary secretary Anna Bahlmann, in a tale told against the backdrop of Gilded Age Paris."@en
  • "If behind every great man is a woman, behind Edith Wharton was Anna Bahlmann - her governess turned literary secretary, and her mothering, nurturing friend. When at the age of forty-five, Edith falls passionately in love with a dashing, younger journalist, it threatens everything certain in her life - especially her friendship with Anna. Wharton's real letters and diary entries are woven throughout this vivid journey through her early Gilded Age world."
  • "In 1907, in the midst of the Gilded Age of Paris society, novelist Edith Wharton writes of grand love affairs, though she has yet to experience her own. Her marriage is more platonic than passionate and her closest relationship is with her literary secretary, Anna Bahlmann. Then Edith meets dashing journalist Morton Fullerton, and her life is at last opened to the world of the sensual. But in yielding to the temptation of their illicit liaison, Edith could lose everything else she holds dear ..."@en
  • "If behind every great man is a woman, behind Edith Wharton was Anna Bahlmann - her governess, turned literary secretary, and her mothering, nurturing friend. When at the age of forty-five, Edith falls passionately in love with a dashing, younger journalist, it threatens everything certain in her life - especially her friendship with Anna. Wharton's real letters and diary entries are woven throughout this vivid journey through her early Gilded Age world."
  • "This is is a work of literary fiction that chronicles the inner life of American author Edith Wharton, her close friendship with a woman named Anna Bahlman, and a scandalous love affair that threatens to destroy their bond."
  • "This is is a work of literary fiction that chronicles the inner life of American author Edith Wharton, her close friendship with a woman named Anna Bahlman, and a scandalous love affair that threatens to destroy their bond."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Historical"
  • "Text"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Biographical fiction"
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  • "Romance"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en

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  • "Age of desire : [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]"
  • "The age of desire : [a novel]"
  • "The age of desire : a novel"
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  • "Age of desire : a novel of Edith Wharton"
  • "The age of desire"
  • "The age of desire"@en

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