by Edith Wharton · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472232136
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«La edad de la inocencia» is a classic novel by Edith Wharton, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback, with 302 pages, in Spanish.
In the high society of New York at the end of the 19th century, the return of Ellen Olenska, an independent countess from Europe, disrupts the engagement of young lawyer Newland Archer to the innocent May Welland. The novel contrasts the old aristocracy and the nouveaux riches in a story of passion that explores love, duty, and tradition.
The novel, originally published in 1920, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. This edition belongs to the Andanzas collection (number 13).
For readers of classic, romantic, and historical fiction and for those who enjoy portraits of New York high society.
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.
