Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize The Age of Innocence is an elegant masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm T ib n for the novel's centennial. With vivid power Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones and society people "who dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland. Then suddenly the mysterious intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence turning Archer's world upside down. This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart as well as a literary achievement of the highest order.
Title: The Age Of Innocence
Author(s): Wharton Edith
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9780684842370
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 3/4/1998
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction