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VERY GOOD: The book's spine, covers, and pages are in excellent condition, showing only slight signs of use or wear.
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From the back cover: "Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize,
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones, and society people 'who dreaded scandal more than disease.' This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence and Newland Archer's world is never the same. Edith Wharton's classic tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart. The
San Francisco Examiner says, 'Wharton's characters leap out from the page and...become very real. You know their hearts, souls and yearnings, and the price they pay for those yearnings.' An unforgettable comedy of manners and morals,
The Age of Innocence is a literary achievement of the highest order.
"Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Innocence. Born in 1862 into one of New York's older and richer families, she was educated here and abroad. In addition to Ethan Frome, her works include The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. As a keen observer and chronicler of society, she is without peer. Edith Wharton died in France in 1937.
"This authoritative text is reprinted from the Library of America edition of Novels by Edith Wharton."
