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  <title><![CDATA[The Reef]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1912</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Edith Wharton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[    This is supposed to be Wharton's Jamesian book....whatever that means. Probably, it's the convoluted plotting in which all is NOT revealed until the end...and then, we &quot;Dear Readers&quot; are treated to the weirdest ending in years.  Anna, major female protagonist, visits the blowsy sister ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18323867">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 27 10:58:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're looking for a real ending, this is not the book for you. But I think it works. You end up feeling the same conflict as Anna Leath. Darrow is an interesting character in that he discloses information when necessary and with sincere regrets when appropriate, but he also withholds information...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55700147">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished The Reef.  For most of the book I was thinking 'oh why am I reading another book about society people with early 20th century morals and manners'?  But the book was good enough for me to hang in there and I loved the dapper George Darrow.  Again I was thinking that the Anna Leath cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73371860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13794036">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 30 20:31:06 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hardly know what to say about this book, it is so good.  I've never been absorbed in the writing style of a book more than the story.  The story is very simple, but by no means shallow, the author's descriptions of each character (only four really)their thoughts, expressions, feelings and the rece...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13794036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53744536">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 23 13:25:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 23 13:37:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Possibly one of the best novels I've ever read. I was given an old copy by a professor at Kent State as a gift and I picked it up months later on a whim. I went in thinking that I would be bored (as I was by Ethan Frome), but I was immediately entranced and literally couldn't put it down until I was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53744536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71993527">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 11:39:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this novel three stars only because the bar is set so high for an Edith Wharton novel. Like all her novels, this story is beautifully written, and you can read it merely to savor the prose. The plot is slightly similar to &quot;The Age of Innocence,&quot; in which class differences and unspok...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71993527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21646771">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While the writing is polished and beautiful, I think this is one of Edith Wharton's weaker novels. It's the story of George Darrow who is rekindling a romance with a childhood sweetheart, the widow Mrs. Anna Leath. But his plans for marriage are thwarted by the appearance of Anna's new governess Sop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21646771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30303444">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tiny Pants]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Aug 16 08:56:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually loooove Edith Wharton, but for some reason this one was really slow-going. I'm not sure why. My theories are a) it takes place overseas instead of in New York; b) the narrator is male; c) it's later work than others I've read. My final though untested theory, since I have not read any Henr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30303444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73709943">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Currently the plot thickens.]]></body>
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    <review id="17639513">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jim]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 12 19:34:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The introduction tells me that Henry James liked it, and I did, too.  He wrote, &quot;The beauty of it is that it is, for all it is worth, a Drama, and almost, as it seems to me, of the psychological Racinian unity, intensity, and gracility.&quot;  It's the kind of story one savors.  When I had to g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17639513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30318373">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ashley]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 16 12:42:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 09 18:55:33 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always love Edith Wharton. This particular novel is not my favorite but filled with enough of what makes her great to keep me going. She used the word &quot;pretext&quot; no less than one hundred times, I'm pretty sure. There was quite a lot of relationship drama, more so than her other novels, or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30318373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72259943">
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    <name><![CDATA[Terilin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm loving this book. Excellent description of the characters and setting. The use of words in this book is amazing. Highly recommend!!]]></body>
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    <review id="14576128">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dane]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 04 19:10:33 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredibly gripping story, considering the simplicity of the plot. Complex and detailed character development and delicately handled themes of sexual innocence versus experience, male and female roles: what it means to be a &quot;lady&quot; and a &quot;gentleman.&quot; A sophisticated rendering of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14576128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7577063">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cecilia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 11 07:49:48 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite Wharton's yet one of her less know titles.  A VERY romantic story...which was Wharton's forte.  Here, she does it so eloquently and simply...it's impossible not to fall in love along with the characters.  Set in France, this tale of destined love is filled with the color of the lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7577063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32708857">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 12 12:22:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 12 12:24:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, Erik and I read the first third and then I bailed because I found it all so distasteful. The main character is repugnant, and you can see the complicating plot development from a mile away. The writing is reminiscent of The Ambassadors but James's book was much better. I'd steer clear! It's no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32708857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48170414">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know after writing a 22 page paper on Edith Wharton's The Reef and The Age of Innocence, her novels just seem so much better and you think maybe its because this paper is finally finished.  Then you go on to read the criticism written about these books and you realize that they just are really g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48170414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37345994">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anjee]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 13 07:05:23 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not get into this book.  The characters really were not established well.  I made it halfway through and then gave up, and anyone who knows me will know that I will read a book till the end even if I don't care for it.  So I really just couldn't get into this book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 07:27:56 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 09 05:55:40 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read a book written in the 1900s about high society in a long time.  It's boring, but comforting - like watching an old classic black and white movie. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 23 08:44:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boring, boring until Book Five.  Then the &quot;love quadrangle&quot; is awesome !!!! Then I didn't understand the ending. Really glad I read it but would only recommend to die-hard Whartonites. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 18 15:03:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 18 15:05:28 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[known as a 'daring' book of its time...intersting love story of the early 1900s.  probably prefer some of wharton's other books over this one but still a good read.]]></body>
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