by Edith Wharton · Book.it · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789898362315
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«A Idade da Inocência» is the historical novel by Edith Wharton, published by Book.it in paperback (304 pages, in Portuguese).
Set in New York high society in the 1870s, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer from a well-to-do family who is preparing to marry May Welland. The return of Countess Olenska from Europe unsettles his world and presents him with a dilemma between desire and social conventions.
Work originally published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, the first awarded to a woman. Original title: The Age of Innocence; Portuguese translation by Mafalda Silva.
For readers of classics and period novels interested in the tensions between love, duty, and nineteenth-century high society.
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.
