by Edith Wharton · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467206180
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«La edad de la inocencia» is the historical and romantic novel by Edith Wharton, published in 2004 by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (395 pages, in Spanish).
In 1870s New York, lawyer Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland. The arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, separated from her husband, awakens in him a conflict between passion and duty. The novel portrays a society of appearances where hypocrisy and conventions oppress women above all.
Novel originally published as «The Age of Innocence» in 1920, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. This edition includes a translation by Manuel Sáenz de Heredia and a prologue by Soledad Puértolas.
For readers of classics and historical novels who appreciate period portraits and social tensions.
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.
