Roman Fever - Edith Wharton Fiction full of ambitious families and

full of ambitious families and guilt-ridden loves

and synthesises these with a broad web of ideas from other disciplines

fresh dialogue

"- Eliza Griswold

Roman Fever - Edith Wharton Fiction full of ambitious families andTales of betrayal, rivalry and loss from the great chronicler of New York's Gilded Age, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition designed by Coralie Bickford SmithIn these elegant and devastating tales of deception, desire and social intrigue, Edith Wharton exposes the brittle veneer of civility that masks human ambition and longing. From the sunlit terraces of Rome to the drawing rooms of New York, Wharton's characters navigate a world