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The Children

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Book Description
A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin... More
Book Information
PublisherVirago Press
BindingPaperback (62 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages368
ISBN-10184408292X
ISBN-13978-1844082926
Publication Date01/01/2006
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About Edith Wharton (Author) : Edith Wharton is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Edith Wharton include House of Mirth, Age of Innocence the, Ethan Frome (Unabridged).
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