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The reef

Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, her first love, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau, Givré, to await her future. Between two short distances can anything happen to disrupt such promise ...?

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  • "Reef. Français"
  • "Reef"@it
  • "Reef"@pl
  • "Там, где разбивается счастье"
  • "Tam, gde razbivaetsi︠a︡ schastʹe"

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  • "Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, her first love, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau, Givré, to await her future. Between two short distances can anything happen to disrupt such promise ...?"@en
  • "Focuses on the lives and fates of three central figures, all of them Americans abroad, George Darrow - a bachelor diplomat, Anna Leath - a wealthy widow whom he hopes to marry, and Sophy Viner - a young, working-class woman with whom Darrow enjoys a costly tryst in Paris."@en
  • "Though best remembered for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton's 1912 novel The Reef ranks among her most critically acclaimed works. The book offers a piercingly insightful look into a complicated family dynamic that stems from the intertwined relationships of several generations of star-crossed lovers."@en
  • "George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, is intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath. Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naive and impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for success."
  • "The morality in this novel revolves around a woman opposing the marriage of her stepson to a woman who has had an affair."
  • "American lady in France discovers that the man she is about to marry has had an affair with her daughter's governess."
  • "The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It concerns a romance between a widow and her old lover. It was adapted into a film The Reef in 1999 starring Sela Ward, Timothy Dalton and Alicia Witt.-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."@en
  • "Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, her first love, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau, Givré, to await her future. Between two short distances can anything happen to disrupt such promose ...?"@en
  • "Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in London with George Darrow, her first love, has left her awakened, disturbed. Anna returns to her beautiful country chateau, Givré, to await her future. Between two short distances can anything happen to disrupt such promose ...?"
  • "Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. The novel opens as Anna awaits a new and fuller life. A chance encounter in London with George Darrow, the first love of her youth, has left her awakened, disturbed, filled with new hope."@en
  • "The revelation of a past love affair has disastrous consequences in The Reef , a riveting portrait of two couples whose impending marriage plans are upset once the story of the liaison emerges. Wharton's clear-eyed wisdom about the possibilities and limitations of love and social class propel this tale to its riveting conclusion."

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en

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  • "The reef"
  • "The reef"@en
  • "The Reef : a novel"
  • "The reef : A novel"
  • "The Reef ; a novel"@en
  • "The reef a novel"@en
  • "The reef a novel"
  • "Das Riff : Roman"
  • "Rif, ili Tam, gde razbivaetsi︠a︡ schastʹe"
  • "The reef ; [Introd. by Louis Auchincloss]"@en
  • "The Reef"
  • "The Reef"@en
  • "Obstacole"
  • "Reef"
  • "Reef"@en
  • "L'écueil"
  • "L'Ecueil"
  • "Reef [Wharton]"
  • "El arrecife"@es
  • "El arrecife"
  • "The reef; a novel"@en
  • "The reef; a novel"
  • "The reef : a novel"
  • "The reef : a novel"@en
  • "Риф, или Там, где разбивается счастье"
  • "Rafa"@pl
  • "Rafa"
  • "L'Écueil"
  • "The reef, a novel"@en
  • "La scogliera"
  • "La scogliera"@it
  • "The reef : with a new introduction"
  • "암초"
  • "El Arrecife"
  • "Amch'o"
  • "The Reef. A novel"@en
  • "The reef / Edith Wharton; With an introduction by Julian Barnes"

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