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Book Description
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, "The Age of Innocence" is an elegant,
masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. With vivid power,
Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of
stately brownstones, and society people "who dreaded scandal more than disease."
This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland.
Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska
returns to New York after a long absence, turning Archer's world upside down.
This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and
profoundly moving look at the passions of
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780684842370
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Scribner
Publishing Date 1998-03-04
Total Pages 384