The Age of Innocence

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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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Description

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New Yorknow 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.

Additional information

Book Condition

Used – Good

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)