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The Reef by Edith Wharton

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Author Biography

Name: Edith Wharton
Birth Date: January 24, c. 1861
Death Date: August 11, 1937
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author

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Biography of Edith Wharton
398 words, approx. 1.3 pages
Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she k...
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Biography of Edith Wharton
11246 words, approx. 37.5 pages
While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depression, a counterva...
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Biography of Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton
10899 words, approx. 36.3 pages
Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that before her death in 1937, her novels and short stories...
 


News and Journals
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Science News
Artificial reefs.
07/26/1986: 2,345 words, approx. 8 pages
ARTIFICAL REEFS This month, the Sport Fishermen of Broward, in conjunction with Broward County (Fla.) and Boyd's Bait and Tackle Shop, sank a ship in honor of Bill Boyd, one of their deceased members. Bill Boyd's underwater memorial joins more then 500...
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Boys' Life
Save the reefs
08/01/2001: 1,218 words, approx. 4 pages
Humans have already destroyed a quarter of the world's coral reefs. Now, it's time to help keep what's left. s a teenager-and a Boy Scout in Troop 116, West Palm Beach, Fla.--I loved hiking and camping in Jonathan Dickinson State Park's coastal sand pine...
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AP News
Researchers looking at coral threats
1/25/2008: 322 words, approx. 1 pages
Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them," Conrad Lautenbacher,...
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AP News
Navy rescues tsunami aid workers
4/12/2007: 259 words, approx. 1 pages
A Navy helicopter airlifted more than 20 people off a fishing boat that struck a reef while ferrying a medical team to help tsunami victims in the Solomon Islands, an official said Friday.The Taiwanese boat hit the reef off the western town of Gizo on...
 


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