The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York’s most prominent families – is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out. However, with the arrival of May’s cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Newland begins to doubt all that once seemed so natural to him.An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York high society in the 1870s – the world in which Edith Wharton grew up – The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order.
ISBN: | 9781847497918 |
Publication date: | 21st March 2019 |
Author: | Edith Wharton |
Publisher: | Alma Classics an imprint of Alma Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 320 pages |
Series: | Evergreens |
Primary Genre | Literary Fiction |