As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down
As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down.
Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never develops into an outright condemnation of the institution.The novel is noted for Wharton's attention to detail and its accurate portrayal of how the ...
Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is at once a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical portrait of a vanished world."--Publisher's website.
The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the Gilded Age.
A collection of essays on Wharton's novel, The age of innocence, presented in chronological order by date of publication.
Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author with publishers clamoring for her work.
Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence has captivated generations of American readers since it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Subtle, ironic, and superbly crafted, Wharton's masterwork is a...
A colorful, unabridged edition of the classic story of love and romantic betrayal among high society in 1870s New York--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921--includes a foreword, afterword, and a biography of the author. Reissue.
The Reef, a story of three Americans living abroad, may hold more clues to Edith Whartons relationship with Morton Fullerton than any other of her fictive works. Young widow Anna...
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