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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton ; edited with an introduction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff and notes by Laura Dluzynski Quinn.
Van Pelt Library PS3545.H16 A7 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Series:
- Penguin twentieth-century classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Separated people--Fiction.
- Separated people.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Upper class--Fiction.
- Upper class.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Love stories.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 330 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin, 1996.
- Summary:
- When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit and Jamesian mastery of form create a disturbingly accurate picture of men and women caught in a society that denies humanity while desperately defending "civilization."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-330).
- ISBN:
- 0451526120
- 9780451526120
- 0140177906
- 9780140177909
- 014027412X
- 9780140274127
- OCLC:
- 32819016
- Publisher Number:
- 99995287912
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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