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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arr ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high so ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocenceis not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, t ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer o a member of one of New York's most prominent families o is living the life that has always been expected of him- he is a successful lawyer engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited a ...Show more
The Age of Innocence (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Edith Wharton; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most illustrious families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic and ...Show more
The Age of Innocence (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a ...Show more
The Age of Innocence - out of print by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction
Newland Archer is going to marry May Welland. It is an excellent match. His fiancee is sweet, pretty - and very conventional. The rest of Newland's life has been mapped out for him. But when May's beautiful and exotic cousin arrives in New York after a disastrous marriage, Newland is thrown into confusi ...Show more
The Buccaneers by Edith WHARTON (and Marion MAINWARING)
Category: Classic Fiction
Nan and Virginia St. George have the great good luck to be born beautiful and wealthy - the two qualities prized above all others in 1870s New York - but the insurmountably bad luck to come from "new money." Shunned by the snobbish guardians of Manhattan society, the lively girls still attract many admi ...Show more