Age Of Innocence

Wharton, Edith

£10.99

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with this witty satire of New York’s upper classes, presented in a beautiful collector’s edition.

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Publish Date: 02/05/2019
ISBN: 9781509890033 Category: Tags: ,

Description

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 – the Gilded Age of New York City.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own collection. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk, author of Outline.

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. The novel was the inspiration for Martin Scorsese’s film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.

Additional information

Weight 214 g
Dimensions 156 × 102 × 25 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

384

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

813.52 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K