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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.

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      Sanctuary by Edith Wharton - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Edith Wharton

      The Complete Works of

      EDITH WHARTON

      VOLUME 3 OF 50

      Sanctuary

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2014

      Version 4

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Sanctuary’

      Edith Wharton: Parts Edition (in 50 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 206 8

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Edith Wharton: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 3 of the Delphi Classics edition of Edith Wharton in 50 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Sanctuary from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Edith Wharton, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Edith Wharton or the Complete Works of Edith Wharton in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      EDITH WHARTON

      IN 50 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Fast and Loose

      2, The Valley of Decision

      3, Sanctuary

      4, The House of Mirth

      5, The Fruit of the Tree

      6, Ethan Frome

      7, The Reef

      8, The Custom of the Country

      9, Summer

      10, The Age of Innocence

      11, The Glimpses of the Moon

      12, A Son at the Front

      13, The Mother’s Recompense

      14, Twilight Sleep

      15, The Children

      16, Hudson River Bracketed

      17, The Gods Arrive

      18, The Buccaneers

      The Novellas

      19, The Touchstone

      20, Madame de Treymes

      21, The Marne

      22, Old New York

      23, False Dawn

      24, The Old Maid

      25, The Spark

      26, New Year’s Day

      The Short Story Collections

      27, The Greater Inclination

      28, Crucial Instances

      29, The Descent of Man and Other Stories

      30, The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories

      31, Tales of Men and Ghosts

      32, Uncollected Early Short Stories

      33, Xingu and Other Stories

      34, Here and Beyond

      35, Certain People

      36, Human Nature

      37, The World Over

      38, Ghosts

      The Play

      39, The Joy of Living

      The Poetry

      40, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

      41, Uncollected Poetry

      The Non-Fiction

      42, The Decoration of Houses

      43, Italian Villas and Their Gardens

      44, Italian Backgrounds

      45, A Motor-Flight Through France

      46, France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

      47, French Ways and Their Meaning

      48, In Morocco

      49, The Writing of Fiction

      The Autobiography

      50, A Backward Glance

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      Sanctuary

      This short novel was first published in 1903 and tells the story of Kate Orme, who is about to marry Denis, an eminent and wealthy bachelor.  However, when she learns of his guilty secret, she becomes painfully aware of his flawed morality and strives to prevent their son from becoming tainted by his father’s ways.

      Wharton in her early twenties

      CONTENTS

      PART I

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      PART II

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      VI

      VII

      VIII

      She has meant to wait for him on the terrace.

      PART I

      I

      It is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy: the sensation is too much the result of selection and elimination to be within reach of the awakening clutch on life. But Kate Orme, for once, had yielded herself to happiness; letting it permeate every faculty as a spring rain soaks into a germinating meadow. There was nothing to account for this sudden sense of beatitude; but was it not this precisely which made it so irresistible, so overwhelming? There had been, within the last two months — since her engagement to Denis Peyton — no distinct addition to the sum of her happiness, and no possibility, she would have affirmed, of adding perceptibly to a total already incalculable. Inwardly and outwardly the conditions of her life were unchanged; but whereas, before, the air had been full of flitting wings, now they seemed to pause over her and she could trust herself to their shelter.

      Many influences had combined to build up the centre of brooding peace in which she found herself. Her nature answered to the finest vibrations, and at first her joy in loving had been too great not to bring with it a certain confusion, a readjusting of the whole scenery of life. She found herself in a new country, wherein he who had led her there was least able to be her guide. There were moments when she felt that the first stranger in the street could have interpreted her happiness for her more easily than Denis. Then, as her eye adapted itself, as the lines flowed into each other, opening deep vistas upon new horizons, she began to enter into possession of her kingdom, to entertain the actual sense of its belonging to her. But she had never before felt that she also belonged to it; and this was the feeling which now came to complete her happiness, to give it the hallowing sense of permanence.

      She rose from the writing-table where, list in hand, she had been going over the wedding-invitations, and walked toward the drawing-room window. Everything about her seemed to contribute to that rare harmony of feeling which levied a tax on every sense. The large coolness of the room, its fine traditional air of spacious living, its outlook over field and woodland toward the lake lying under the silver bloom of September; the very scent of the late violets in a glass on the writing-table; the rosy-mauve masses of hydrangea in tubs along the terrace; the fall, now and then, of a leaf through the still air — all, somehow, were mingled in the suffusion of well-being that yet made them seem but so much dross upon its current.

      The girl’s smile prolonged itself at the sight of a figure approaching from the lower slopes above the lake. The path was a short cut from the Peyton place, and she had known that Denis would appear in it at about that hour. Her smile, however, was prolonged not so much by his approach as by her sense of the impossibility of communicating her mood to him. The feeling did not disturb her. She could not imagine sharing her deepest moods with any one, and the world in which she lived with Denis was too bright and spacious to admit of any sense of constraint. Her smile was in truth a tribute to that clear-eyed directness of his which was so often a refuge from her own complexities.

      Denis Peyton was used to being met with a smile. He might have been pardoned for thinking smiles the habitual wear of the human countenance; and his estimate of life and of himself was necessarily tinged by the cordial terms on which they had always met each other. He had in fact found life, from the start, an uncommonly agreeable business, culminating fitly enough in his engagement to the only girl he had ever wished to marry, and the inheritance, from his unhappy step-brother, of a fortune which agreeably widened his horizon. Such a combination of circumstances might well justify a young man in thinking himself of some account in the universe; and it seemed the final touch of fitness that the mourning which Denis still wore for poor Arthur should lend a new distinction to his somewhat florid good looks.

      Kate Orme was not without an amused perception of her future husband’s point of view; but she could enter into it with the tolerance which allows for the inconscient element in all our judgments. There was, for instance, no one more sentimentally

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