The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist, Rachel Cusk.As the scion of one of New York's leading families, Newland Archer has been born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. But the arrival of the Countess Olenska, a free spirit who breathes clouds of European sophistication, makes him question the path on which his upbringing has set him. As his fascination with her grows, he discovers just how hard it is to escape the bonds of the society that has shaped him.

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A great city's greatest novelist . . . Wharton's late masterpiece stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture and in desperate need of a European sensibility Robert McCrum Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Edith Wharton
• Assisted by: Rachel Cusk (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781509890033
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-9003-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 160 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, Historical romance, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Romance / Historical / American, c 1970 to c 1980, Satirical, c 1870 to c 1879, c 1877 to c 1893 (‘The Gilded Age’ in the USA), Satirical style / satire