The Age of Innocence
$26.44
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2012
Summary
One of Wharton’s most famous novels—the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize—exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York.
Newland Archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. But when May’s cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her failed marriage to a Polish count, her worldly and independent nature intrigues and unsettles Archer. Trapped by his passionless relationship with May a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307949516 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307949516 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton, Peter Washington |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 131mm x 201mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
“There is no woman in American literature as fascinating as the doomed Madame Olenska… . Traditionally, Henry James has always been placed slightly higher up the slope of Parnassus than Edith Wharton. But now that the prejudice against the female writer is on the wane, they look to be exactly what they are: giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature.” –Gore Vidal
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into high society in New York City. After divorcing her husband in 1913 she took up permanent residence in France. Her many stories and novels were critical successes as well as bestsellers and she won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence in 1921.
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