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A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.
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The Children, Edith Wharton
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- The Children
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Edith Wharton
- Publisher
- Virago, 1985
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 184408292x
- ISBN13
- 9781844082926
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, USA, American Literature
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.