by Edith Wharton · Publicações Europa-América · tapa blanda · ISBN 5601072531017
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«A idade da inocência» is the novel by Edith Wharton published by Publicações Europa-América in paperback, in Portuguese.
The story is set in New York in the 1870s and follows Newland Archer, a young lawyer from high society, torn between his fiancée May Welland and Countess Olenska, recently arrived from Europe. The novel portrays with irony the social conventions of the time and the conflict between individual desire and duty.
It is a novel that won the Pulitzer Prize. This 1997 edition belongs to the collection «Grandes Clássicos do Século XX».
For readers of classic and romantic fiction who appreciate period social portraits.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
