by Edith Wharton · Clássica Editora · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725614488
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
Set in the rigid society of 1870s New York, Edith Wharton's masterpiece follows Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to the conventional May Welland. His life is upended by the arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, an independent woman marked by scandal who challenges the moral codes of the era. Through sharp irony, the author portrays the conflict between social duty and individual desire.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
