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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by R.W.B. Lewis.
LIBRA - Special PS3545.H16 A35 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Love stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 380 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner paperback Fiction edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction, [1998]
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0684842378
- 9780684842370
- OCLC:
- 38815244
- Online:
- http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/6741/
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