The Age of Innocence - Brossura

Wharton, Edith

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140622055 ISBN 13: 9780140622058

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1996

Riassunto

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society.

Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence.

Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.

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L'autore:

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902. The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, published in 1905. She died in 1937.

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Book by Wharton Edith

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140622055
• ISBN 13: 9780140622058
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384