Wharton, Edith 1862-1937 creator text utu 2023 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Twilight Sleep" by Edith Wharton is a novel published in 1927. Set in Jazz Age New York, it follows a wealthy socialite family whose carefully maintained facade begins to crumble. As they struggle to save one marriage, hidden affairs and avoidance threaten to unravel everything. Through shifting perspectives, Wharton satirizes a society obsessed with efficiency and escaping pain, where characters desperately seek quick fixes rather than confronting uncomfortable truths. The story builds toward a violent climax that forces nothing to change. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Sleep_(novel) Release date is 2023-05-23 Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.) Originally published: United States: D. Appleton and Company, 1927 New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Domestic fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Upper class -- Fiction PS United States: D. Appleton and Company, 1927 27011209 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001188230 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70844 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001188230 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70844 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134634.0 70844