Name: The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner) by: Edith Wharton
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781530650491

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The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner) by: Edith Wharton

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781530650491

Synopsis "The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner) by: Edith Wharton"

The Age of Innocence Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people "dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life-or mercilessly destroy it.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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