by Edith Wharton · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447359769
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«La edad de la inocencia» is the novel by Edith Wharton, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardback (397 pages, in Spanish).
In late 19th-century New York, Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland. The arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin fleeing a marriage in Europe, awakens a forbidden passion in him. Ellen's independence clashes with the rigid morality of high society and confronts Newland with the dilemma between duty and desire.
Novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Translation by María Rosa Duhart and foreword by Maruja Torres. Original work from 1920, «The Age of Innocence», included in the Grandes escritoras collection.
For readers of classic and romantic fiction, and for those who enjoy period dramas about high society and its 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.
