The Age of Innocence: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

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The intelligent and charming Newland Archer a member of one of New Yorks most prominent families 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 Mays cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, doubts begin to grow in Newlands mind. As the bond between them grows, Newland comes increasingly to question all that had once seemed so simple. An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New Yorks high society in the 1870s the world Edith Wharton grew up in The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order.

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There is no woman in American literature as fascinating as Madame Olenska. -- Gore Vidal

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Edith Wharton (18621937) was an American author best known for the novel The Age of Innocence, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making her the first female winner of the award.