377 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1932 by D. Appleton-Century Co..
The age of innocence
Edith Wharton: The age of innocence (1932, D. Appleton-Century Co.)
- OCLC Number:
- 172427
5 stars
(2 reviews)
An elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870's, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets May's cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence.
Subjects
- Social life and customs
- Man-woman relationships
- Marriage
- Manners and customs
- Upper class
- Fiction