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The Mother's Recompense
Paperback
Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515448853
Publisher: Wilder Pubn
Published: Jan 1 2021
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A late and penetrating novel by Edith Wharton exploring exile, reputation, and the fragile negotiations between mother and daughter.
First published in 1925, A Mother's Recompense centres on Kate Clephane, a woman who years earlier abandoned her marriage and child in pursuit of passion and independence. Returning to New York society after a long absence in Europe, she seeks reconciliation with the daughter she left behind. Yet the social world she re-enters remains governed by codes of propriety and memory that do not easily forgive.
As Kate attempts to rebuild her life, Wharton examines the limits imposed upon women who defy convention. The novel moves with quiet tension through drawing rooms and private conversations, revealing how reputation, desire, and generational expectation intersect. The relationship between mother and daughter becomes both a possibility of renewal and a source of profound moral complexity.
Measured and unsentimental, A Mother's Recompense stands among Wharton's later works as a subtle study of social exile and the cost of self-determination within the structures of early twentieth-century American society.
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