Philip and His Wife
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Philip and His Wife is a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by the American
United States
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 writer Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes.-Life:...

 (1857–1945) set in the 19th century fictional locale of Old Chester, a Western Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania
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 rural village near Pittsburgh.

The novel tells the story of Philip and Cecil Shore, whose marriage is a failure, and the book explores the complications of divorce and morality among the middle classes.

It was first published in installments in Atlantic Monthly from January through October 1894.

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