Twilight Sleep
by Edith Wharton
Publisher: Scribner 1927
ISBN/ASIN: 0684839644
Number of pages: 320
Description:
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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