| Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1725896850 ISBN-13: 9781725896857 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.76 lbs) 256 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10826 Reading Level: 8.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Newland Archer, the ambivalent protagonist, represents the apogee of good breeding. He is the ultimate insider in post-Civil War New York society. Although engaged to May Welland, a beautiful and proper fellow member of elite society, he is attracted to the free-spirited Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin and a former member of their circle who has been living in Europe but has left her husband, a cruel Polish nobleman, under mysterious circumstances and returned to her family's New York milieu. His upcoming marriage to the young socialite will unite two of New York's oldest families, but from the novel's opening pages, Olenska imports a passionate intensity and mysterious Old World eccentricity that disrupt the conventional world of order-obsessed New York. Ellen's hopes of being set free from her past are dashed when she is forced to choose between conformity and exile, while Newland's appointment by the Welland family as Ellen's legal consultant begins an emotional entanglement the force of which he could never have imagined. |