by Edith Wharton
This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order.
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by Edith Wharton
This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order.
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Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York—now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm Tóibín for the novel’s centennial.
With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones, and society people “who dreaded scandal more than disease.” This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence, turning Archer’s world upside down.
Book Condition | Used – Good |
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Cover | Paperback |
Size | 365 pages, pocket book |
Published | February 29, 1996 by Penguin Books, first published in 1920 |
Genre | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Romance |
Book Series | Penguin Popular Classics |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1921) |