TY  - GEN
T1  - Sanctuary
A1  - Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
A2  - Clark, Walter Appleton
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - Pine Street Books
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn891394623
AB  - Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and marry Denis, however, as a selfless gesture to protect any child he may conceive from inheriting their father's moral weakness. The couple does have a child, Dick, and in a marriage with a man that Kate has admittedly ceased to love, she transfers her original affections for Denis to their son. Denis dies suddenly and Kate is left to raise their young son. Knowing that Dick could have inherited the faults of his father, Kate anticipates a time when Dick's morality will be severely tested. That time comes years later when Dick, an eligible bachelor and aspiring professional, is faced with a dilemma that will affect the course of his life. With the precision, beauty, and sharp awareness of the cracks in upper-class New York society that made her one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton offers a subtle critique of the nature versus nurture debate that raged in the early 1900s. Sanctuary is a spare and moving investigation of the forces that impel human beings toward sin, self-doubt, and redemption.
OP  - 212
NO  - Originally published 1903 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
CN  - PS3545.H16 S26 2001eb
SN  - 9780812291209
SN  - 0812291204
SN  - 0812217926
SN  - 9780812217926
KW  - Mothers and sons : Fiction.
KW  - Widows : Fiction.
KW  - Mères et fils : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Veuves : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - FICTION : Classics.
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Widows
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction.
KW  - Domestic fiction.
ER  -