The Age of Innocence - Wharton, Edith
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Upper-class New York gentleman Newland Archer is set to wed May Welland in a picture-perfect union when the bride¿s cousin, Ellen Olenska, returns from a failed marriage overseas. As Newland endeavors to help Countess Olenska be reinstated into the family¿s good graces, his affections for her grow. Newland soon finds himself torn between his desire to conform to the society he knows and his new-found passion for the forbidden Countess. The Age of Innocence was originally published in 1920 as a four-part series in Pictoral Review, then later that same year as Wharton¿s twelfth novel. It went on…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Upper-class New York gentleman Newland Archer is set to wed May Welland in a picture-perfect union when the bride¿s cousin, Ellen Olenska, returns from a failed marriage overseas. As Newland endeavors to help Countess Olenska be reinstated into the family¿s good graces, his affections for her grow. Newland soon finds himself torn between his desire to conform to the society he knows and his new-found passion for the forbidden Countess. The Age of Innocence was originally published in 1920 as a four-part series in Pictoral Review, then later that same year as Wharton¿s twelfth novel. It went on to win the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the award.
Autorenporträt
Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. To her friends and family she was known as Pussy Jones. She had two older brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. Frederic married Mary Cadwalader Rawle; their daughter was landscape architect Beatrix Farrand. Edith was baptized April 20, 1862, Easter Sunday, at Grace Church.