An engagement is poisoned by the fiancé's concealed affair with the young woman's governess. Wharton's spare novel of scruple and desire.
Books mentioned in The Reef (2)
L'Ami Fritz by Erckmann-Chatrian: “…so the only chance we had was when friends of theirs invited us--and once it was to see a tragedy by a Roumanian lady, and the other time it was for 'L'Ami Fritz' at the Francais."”
Le Vertige by Henri Bernstein: “Le Vertige' is a fine thing, and Cerdine gets some wonderful effects out of it.”