The Fruit of the Tree.

“IN YOUR WORK, DON’T YOU EVER FEEL TEMPTED TO SET A POOR DEVIL FREE?”: First Edition of Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree

The Fruit of the Tree.

WHARTON, Edith.

$150.00

Item Number: 107431

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.

First edition of Wharton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustration by Alonzo Kimball. In fine condition.

In this novel, Wharton examines such controversial topics as euthanasia, treatment of factory workers, divorce, and drug addiction. It’s “an interesting and rewarding book in many ways—especially in its depiction of the heroine, Justine Brent, and her marriage to a weak man” (Modern American Women Writers, 389).

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