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The Children

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4 out of 5
Based on 155 Ratings and 28 Reviews

Book Description
A bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton's 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 "like bundles," are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the chil... More
Book Information
PublisherScribner Book Company
BindingPaperback (62 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages304
ISBN-100684831554
ISBN-13978-0684831558
Publication Date09/02/1997
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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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