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"Contexts" constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Wharton's manuscript outlines, letters, and related writings.

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Edith Wharton's masterpiece brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age. Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite May Welland, when he meets her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska,... Read Full Overview

The Age of Innocence tells the story of an upcoming society wedding, and the threat to the happy couple from the appearance of a cousin of the bride who is in an exotic and beautiful femme fatale, a cousin of the bride. The groom to be is Newland Archer a distinguished lawyer... Read Full Overview

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The Age of Innocence By Edith Wharton - A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterpiece of Love, Loss, and the Inescapable Grip of Society In The Age of Innocence , Edith Wharton delivers a deeply moving and meticulously crafted exploration of passion, duty, and the powerful forces of social... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) wrote carefully structured fiction that probed the psychological and social elements guiding the behavior of her characters. Her portrayals of upper-class New Yorkers were unrivaled. The Age of Innocence , for which Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize in... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about love and the constraints of privilege, and the basis for Martin Scorsese's outstanding, award-winning 1993 adaptation, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics Line.

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Spaciously formatted for ease of reading. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, features life in high society in New York's Gilded Age. It is the story of Newland Archer, a wealthy lawyer, whose life seems to be perfectly arranged, including his... Read Full Overview

Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a book written by a woman, The Age of Innocence is a suspenseful, deeply moving, and brilliantly accomplished novel of the struggle between desire and destiny.

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York--now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm T ib n for the novel's centennial. With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets,... Read Full Overview