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EDITORIAL REVIEW: Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesโbiographical, historical, and literaryโto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Whartonโs masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people โdreaded scandal more than disease.โThis is Newland Archerโs world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his lifeโor mercilessly destroy it.Maureen Howard is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include Bridgeport Bus, Natural History, and A Loverโs Almanac. Her memoir, Facts of Life, won the National Book Criticsโ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.
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The Pulitzer Prizeโwinning novel of desire and duty in Gilded Age New YorkA respected lawyer and scion of one of Manhattan's most important families, Newland Archer knows what people expect of him and is eager to comply. The first step on the path to happiness is to wed May Welland, a beautiful youn
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy
Having been born into a life of wealth and privilege, Edith Wharton was part of the small clique of aristocratic families that held sway over the social and cultural life of New York city at the turn of the nineteenth century. In The Age of Innocence, Wharton looks back fondly on the life that was e
EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*Age of Innocence\*, by \*\*Edith Wharton\*\*, is part of the \*Barnes & Noble Classics\*\* \*series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
The 1920s novel of a passion threatened by convention and played out against a backdrop of New York City's upper class, unimaginable wealth, and unavoidable tragedy.
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