Twilight Sleep is a novel by American author Edith Wharton and was first published in 1927. The story, filled with irony, is centered around a socialite family navigating the New York of the Jazz Age and their relationships. This novel landed at number one on the best-selling list just two months after its publication and finished the year at number 7. Twilight Sleep is widely considered to be a modernist novel as it employs modernist literary devices, such as an ever changing narration among th