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Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton

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Twilight Sleep
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Publisher: Scribner
ISBN/ASIN: 0684839644
Number of pages: 320

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Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing -- these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep.

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