Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence earned her the first Pulitzer Prize for literature awarded to a woman. Published in 1920 but set in 1870s New York, the novel explores the labyrinth of high society in America's Gilded Age. The novel depicts the doomed marriage of Newland Archer and May Welland.
You Sell Your Bond Before It Matures & Interest Rates have gone down. You buy a 10 year U.S. Treasury Note with a face value of $1,000 and an interest rate of 4.26%. If you sell your bond before it matures and interest rates have dropped 2%, you will receive $1,118.54 (plus any interest paid before the sale).
Both electronic and paper versions of Series I savings bonds are purchased at face value and earn interest until they are redeemed or reach maturity. You must hold Series I bonds for at least 12 months before redeeming them. Series I savings bonds will continue to earn interest for up to 30 years. They will cease paying interest once they have matured.