Twilight Sleep: Large Print (Digital Original) (Classics To Go Series)

By: Edith Wharton

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Synopsis: The celebrated author of The Age of Innocence offers a biting satire of Jazz Age society in this tale of indulgence, infidelity, and family dysfunction. Nona Manford is in love with the wrong man—or at least, she&’s in love with a man whose wife won&’t grant a divorce. When she isn&’t preoccupied with her own romantic dilemma, Nona is busy trying to save the marriage of her stepbrother, Jim. But Jim&’s wife, Lita, is desperate to escape her domestic role for a life of dancing, champagne, and glamour. And meanwhile, the family&’s older generation isn&’t faring much better. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1927, Edith Wharton&’s Twilight Sleep is both a scathing satire of Jazz Age frivolity and a psychologically probing portrait of a family coming apart at the seams.