Children - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

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Synopsis

Tired of being shuttled back and forth among their parents, seven stepbrothers and stepsisters find an ally and protector in Martin Boyne, the forty-six-year-old bachelor in love with the children's fifteen-year-old sister

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In The Children, an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton created a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and-sisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent 'like bundles, ' are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary forty-six-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was one of America's greatest novelists.

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