About the Book: Age Of Innocence: Everyman Classics
"A tale of the conflict between love and tradition by Americas finest woman
novelist It is the 1870s, and New York society is subtly under siege from
upstarts and foreigners. Into its rarefied air comes the Countess Olenska, her
veiled past hinting of adultery and shame. The love that erupts between her and
Newland Archer-adventurous in imagination yet fatally conventional in habit-is
more dangerous even than dishonesty: it strikes at the delicate moral foundation
of their precarious world. Edith Wharton shared the fine observant eye of Henry
James, her mentor and friend. This tender yet unsparing evocation of a