The Age Of Innocence
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
4 December 1993
Summary
Edith Wharton’s novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New York during the 1870s, reveals terrifying chasms under the polished surface of upper-class society as the increasingly fraught Archer struggles with conflicting obligations and desires. The first woman to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152029 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152026 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 1993 |
| Weight: | 501g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 135mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born in New York City on January 24, 1862. She married Teddy Wharton, who was 12 years older, and they lived a life of relative ease with homes in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Edith became a prolific writer, producing over 40 books in 40 years.
Edith divorced Teddy in 1912, having no immediate heirs, and never married again. She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novels became so popular that Ms. Wharton was able to live comfortably on her earnings the rest of her life. Edith continued to write until a stroke took her life in August 1937.
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