{"product_id":"2026200011086-secondhand-the-fruit-of-the-tree","title":"The Fruit Of The Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fruit of the Tree is a richly layered social novel set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century industrial America, where questions of duty, morality, and personal sacrifice collide with devastating consequence. Edith Wharton chronicles the life of John Amherst, an idealistic mill manager determined to improve the brutal conditions endured by his workers, whose reforming ambitions become entangled with two very different women — the compassionate nurse Justine Brent and the wealthy mill owner Bessy Westmore. With the precision and authority of a master social observer, Wharton dissects the tensions between privilege and conscience, passion and principle, in a narrative that moves from the factory floor to the drawing room with seamless grace. The novel confronts one of its era's most daring ethical dilemmas — euthanasia — head-on, refusing easy answers and demanding that its characters, and its readers, weigh the true cost of moral conviction. A neglected masterwork from one of American literature's greatest voices, it stands as a searching and unsparing portrait of a society in transition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956216901851,"sku":"2026200011086-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/11933ca2-8c67-45d6-9243-40b4e1762d8c.png?v=1783499108","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011086-secondhand-the-fruit-of-the-tree","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}