by Edith Wharton · Círculo de Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422648444
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«La edad de la inocencia» is the novel by Edith Wharton, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (342 pages, in Spanish).
The high society of late 19th-century New York sees its routine disrupted by the arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe after leaving her husband. Newland Archer, engaged to May Welland, is fascinated by her and must choose between his desire and strict social rules. A story about hypocrisy, duty, and the price of passion.
Original title «The Age of Innocence»; first published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. This Spanish edition was published in 1994.
For readers of American literary classics and love stories shaped by social conventions.
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.
