by Edith Wharton · Austral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788411075824
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The Age of Innocence is a novel by Edith Wharton that tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer from New York's high society in the late 19th century, who is torn between duty and desire. Engaged to the sweet and conventional May Welland, Newland is attracted to Countess Olenska, an independent and sophisticated woman who returns to New York after a failed marriage. As Newland gets closer to the Countess, he is forced to question his values and the rigid norms of his social environment. The novel explores themes such as love, marriage, social class, and emotional repression in the high society of the time.
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.
