by Edith Wharton · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429740196
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«L'Edat de la innocència» is the period novel by Edith Wharton, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (288 pages, in Catalan).
New York, late 19th century. Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to May Welland, sees the arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin returning from Europe after a failed marriage. Ellen's independence attracts him and pits him against the rigid conventions of high society.
Work originally published as The Age of Innocence in 1920, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921; this Catalan edition belongs to the Escriptores del Segle XX collection, no. 18.
For readers of American classics and period novels about the conflict between desire and social convention.
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.
