by Edith Wharton · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140189704
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«The Age of Innocence» is Edith Wharton's classic novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (368 pages, in English).
New York, 1870s. Newland Archer, a young man of high society, is about to become engaged to May Welland when her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, arrives after leaving her husband. Ellen awakens in Newland a passion that clashes with duty and rigid social conventions.
Novel winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. This Penguin Classics edition includes a foreword by Elif Batuman.
Ideal for readers of literary classics and period novels centred on love and 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.
