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  • Published: 4 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9781857152029
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 360
  • RRP: $39.99
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The Age of Innocence




VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New York during the 1870s, reveals terrifying chasms under the polished surface of upper-class society as the increasingly fraught Archer struggles with conflicting obligations and desires. The first woman to do so, Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for this dark comedy of manners which was immediately recognized as one of her greatest achievements.

  • Published: 4 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9781857152029
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 360
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

Other books in the series

Emma
Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

About the author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.

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