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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton with an introduction by Peter Washington.

The age of innocence / Edith Wharton with an introduction by Peter Washington.
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ISBN 9781857152029 (hardback)
Name Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 author.
Title The age of innocence / Edith Wharton with an introduction by Peter Washington.
Published New York : Everyman's Library/A.A. Knopf, 2008.
©1920
Description xliii, 308 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes Originally published: 1920.
Includes bibliographical references (page xxv).
Summary Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage.
Awards note Winner of 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Subjects Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Upper class -- Fiction
Married people -- Fiction
Marriage -- Fiction
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
Other Names Washington, Peter writer of introduction.
Series Everyman's library 202.
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