The Reef

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by James Tissot, Édouard Vuillard and Vilhelm Hammershøi. A diplomat, delayed in Paris by a letter putting him off, spends a few days with a girl he meets by chance — and months later finds her installed in the French château where he has come to marry the widow he has loved for years. Wharton wrote this in 1912 after her own affair and on the eve ...