The valley of decision
By: a novel by Edith Wharton
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1914
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 655
Description: This novel is set in eighteenth-century Italy and focuses on the rise and conflicts of Odo Valsecca, who deals with virtually every social class of the period. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the antireligious thoughts of Rousseau and Voltaire against the orthodox leaders of the day. This is a long and complex novel.