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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

Saunders, Judith P.
Wharton, Edith
Barreca, Regina

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ISBN10: 0451530888
ISBN13: 9780451530882
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Mar 4 2008
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.79 Depth: 6.79
Language: English
Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a book written by a woman, The Age of Innocence is a suspenseful, deeply moving, and brilliantly accomplished novel of the struggle between desire and destiny.

In the polished works of Edith Wharton, Old New York is a society at once infinitely sophisticated and ruthlessly primitive, in which adherence to ritual and loyalty to clan surpass all other values--and transgression is always punished.

The Age of Innocence is Wharton's 1920 novel of love menaced by convention, played out against a gorgeously arrayed backdrop of opera houses, lavish dinner parties, country homes, and luxurious deathbeds. The young lawyer Newland Archer believes that he must make an impossible choice: domesticity with his docile and lovely fiancée, May Welland, or passion with her highly unsuitable but irresistible cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska. What Newland does not suspect--but will learn--is that the women also hold cards in this game...

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