by Edith Wharton · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853262104
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«The Age of Innocence» is the classic novel by Edith Wharton, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Newland Archer, a young lawyer in New York high society of the 1870s, expects to marry the innocent May Welland. The arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin returning from Europe, unsettles his plans and confronts him with a dilemma between social duty and desire. A satirical comedy of manners about the rigid conventions and hypocrisy of the upper class.
Originally published in 1920, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, the first awarded to a woman. This 1997 edition includes an introduction and notes by Stuart Hutchinson.
For readers of classic and romantic fiction, and for book clubs seeking a satire of nineteenth-century 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.
