The Age of Innocence (AmazonClassics Edition) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1542049563 ISBN 13: 9781542049566

Publisher: AmazonClassics, 2017

Synopsis

It’s the perfect match―gentleman lawyer Newland Archer will marry young socialite May Welland. The marriage should be a source of pride for Newland, accustomed as he is to meeting the expectations of New York’s high society. But when he falls for May’s exotic and enchanting cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, he faces an impossible choice: should he be the dutiful husband and stay with his bride, or give in to his passions and follow the countess around the world?

A classic that encapsulates the etiquette of the times, The Age of Innocence is as much about loyalty, duty, and decorum as it is about desire.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Age of Innocence, this edition of The Age of Innocence (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

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About the Author

Born in New York City, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist, short story, and travel writer; a literary critic, poet, memoirist, and playwright; and a prolific Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize.

Well educated and raised in wealth, Edith, whose love of writing came early, published her first poem at fifteen. It was a personal triumph for her, though less so for her family, who believed it unseemly for an upper-class girl’s name to appear in print. Such social restrictions that defined her youth would inform her ironic social satires and psychological portraits of America’s privileged class. Although she didn’t publish her first novel until she was forty, thereafter her prodigious output included such acclaimed works as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence.

Edition details

• Publisher: AmazonClassics
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1542049563
• ISBN 13: 9781542049566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348