by Edith Wharton · Collier Paperbacks,U.S. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780020264767
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«The Age of Innocence» is the novel by Edith Wharton, published by Collier Paperbacks, U.S. in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Set in New York high society of the 1870s, it follows Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to the placid May Welland. The arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska awakens in him a passion that defies the code of his circle. Trapped between loyalty and desire, he discovers that conventions make that love impossible.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. This 1992 edition includes an introduction by R. W. B. Lewis.
Recommended for readers of American literary classics and period novels with romantic conflict.
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.
