单项选择题

Her novel published to universal acclaim, her literary gifts acknowledged by the chief figures of the Harlem Renaissance, her reputation as yet ______ by envious slights, Hurston clearly was at the ______ of her career.

(A) undamaged...ebb
(B) untarnished...zenith
(C) untainted...extremity
(D) blackened...mercy
(E) unmarred...brink