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Publisher: Alma

Author: Edith Wharton

ISBN: 9781847497918

Classics, Fiction

The Age of Innocence by
Edith Wharton

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$ 550.00 mxn

The Age of Innocence by

Edith Wharton

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"There is no woman in American literature as fascinating as... Madame Olenska."

Gore Vidal

Summary

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York's most prominent families – is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Newland begins to doubt all that once seemed so natural to him.An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York high society in the 1870s – the world in which Edith Wharton grew up – The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order.

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