
' If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance then marriage was a crime against human nature' Two moving stories of love loss desire & divorce from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Wharton's works available in Penguin Classics are Ethan Frome The Age of Innocence The Custom of the Country & The House of Mirth