Author: Wharton, Edith (Author)
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Published on 25 April 2024 by PUSHKIN PRESS (Pushkin Press Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Pushkin Press Classics' series.
Paperback | 336 pages
200 x 130 x 30 | 296g
A charming story of romantic misadventures where a young couple's love is threatened by the power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her ageNick Lansing and Susy Branch are young and attractive, but penniless. Gracefully moving through New York high society, they have the right connections but By Product of the wealth. When they inconveniently fall in love, Susy devises a plan. They will marry and spend a year flitting across Europe, staying in the homes of their rich friends and living off honeymoon gifts until either one of them meets a better, richer prospect.
But jealous passions and troubled consciences soon cause their idyll to crumble. Told with Edith Wharton's trademark wit, Glimpses of the Moon is a tartly amusing story of social climbing and romantic misadventure from one of our greatest writers.