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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton.
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- ISBN: 9781496082145
- ISBN: 1496082141
- Physical Description: 121 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Charleston, SC : [Createspace Independent Pub.,] 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: D. Appleton and Company, New York and London, in 1920. |
Summary, etc.: | A 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. Wharton contrasts the intensity of true passion against the complacency of a loveless but proper marriage, questioning the expected behavior of the upper social class. |
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Subject: | Manners and customs > Fiction. Rich people > 19th century > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction. |
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