The Age of Innocence, 9780140189704
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Gilded Age love triangle: duty, desire, and devastating secrets collide.

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    29 May 1996

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Summary

Forbidden Love in the Gilded Age: The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores love, duty, and unspoken truths in New York’s high society.

Newland Archer, a dutiful young man, is set to marry May Welland, a perfect match. However, the arrival of May’s cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, disrupts his plans. Ellen’s European sophistication and independent spirit intrigue Newland, despite his commitment to May and the societal benefits it offers.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140189704
ISBN-10:014018970X
Series:Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
Author:Edith Wharton, Cynthia Wolff, Laura Quinn
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Edition:2nd
Release Date:29 May 1996
Weight:249g
Dimensions:196mm x 127mm x 16mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Wharton is not generally viewed as one of literature’s great optimists, and yet, by the last chapter of The Age of Innocence, people are a little less hypocritical, a little more willing to see and accept the world. … A larger life and more tolerant views: that’s the greatest promise the novel holds out to us, and it’s as necessary now as it was when Edith Wharton put it into words.”—Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot, from the foreword“Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?”—E. M. Forster

About The Author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902. The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, published in 1905. She died in 1937.

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