by Edith Wharton · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140177909
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«The Age of Innocence» is the novel by Edith Wharton published by Penguin UK in paperback (304 pages, in English).
In the high society of 1870s New York, lawyer Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland. The arrival of Ellen Olenska, May's cousin separated from her European husband, awakens in him a forbidden attraction. Archer is torn between passion and the rigid social conventions of his world.
1993 edition with cover from the Martin Scorsese film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
Aimed at readers aged 14 and over and at those who enjoy classics of American literature with a romantic and historical backdrop.
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.
