by Edith Wharton · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140181890
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«The Age of Innocence» is the novel by Edith Wharton, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Young lawyer Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland in late nineteenth-century New York. The return of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin who has left her European husband, awakens in Archer a passion that clashes with the rigid social code of high society.
Originally published in 1920, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. This edition belongs to the Twentieth Century Classics collection.
For readers of American literary classics and for those who enjoy historical romantic novels.
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.
