The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

ISBN 10: 1914602056 / ISBN 13: 9781914602054

Published by Chiltern Publishing, GB, 2021

About this Item

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The Age Of Innocence tells the story of a wealthy lawyer Newland Archer, who is engaged to sweet socialite May Welland in 1870s New York. On the surface, it is a perfect match. But when May's beautiful cousin Countess Ellen Olenska, who is estranged from her brutish husband, arrives in town, Newland begins to question the meaning of passion and love as he desperately pursues a relationship with Ellen, even though she has been made a social outcast by Archer's peersChiltern are publishers of exquisitely crafted editions of the world's finest classic literature. These beautiful books are a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques. With wonderful original, detailed and embossed covers, sparkling gilt edges, cream art paper, ribbon markers and stitched binding they are simply the most beautiful classics ever published.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Age of Innocence
• Publisher: Chiltern Publishing, GB
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1914602056
• ISBN 13: 9781914602054
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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The Age Of Innocence tells the story of a wealthy lawyer Newland Archer, who is engaged to sweet socialite May Welland in 1870s New York. On the surface, it is a perfect match. But when May's beautiful cousin Countess Ellen Olenska, who is estranged from her brutish husband, arrives in town, Newland begins to question the meaning of passion and love as he desperately pursues a relationship with Ellen, even though she has been made a social outcast by Archer's peers.

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and designer. Among the most famous of her many novels are The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, the first woman to receive that honor.