A Garden of Earthly Delights
 A Garden of Earthly Delights is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates published by Vanguard in 1967. It was her second book published and it inaugurated the so-called Wonderland Quartet (1967 to 1971). It was a finalist for the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.A Garden sets out to explore social class in America and the inner lives of its youngsters. It follows heroine Clara Walpole a very beautiful daughter of a Kentucky-born farmer.