The Age of Innocence - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451526120 ISBN 13: 9780451526120

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

Against a backdrop of early twentieth-century opera houses, dinner parties, country homes, and luxurious deathbeds, young lawyer Newland Archer must choose between his docile fiance+a7e, May Welland, and her sensual cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska. Reissue.

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"Is it--in this world--vulgar to ask for more? To entreat a little wildness, a dark place or two in the soul?"--Katherine Mansfield
"There is no woman in American literature as fascinating as the doomed Madame Olenska. . . . Traditionally, Henry James has always been placed slightly higher up the slope of Parnassus than Edith Wharton. But now that the prejudice against the female writer is on the wane, they look to be exactly what they are: giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature."--Gore Vidal
"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?"--E. M. Forster

From the Publisher

A Norton Critical Edition. The editor, Candace Waid is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451526120
• ISBN 13: 9780451526120
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320