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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer o a member of one of New York's most prominent families o is living the life that has always been expected of him- he is a successful lawyer engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited a ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of lov ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arr ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Age of Innocence (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Edith Wharton; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most illustrious families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic and ...Show more
The Age of Innocence (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had "assembled as many detestable people as it is possible t ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Vitae Edition Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of th ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here, she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. Although the worlds she wants to conquer have vanished, Undine herself is amazingly recognizable. She marrie ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords u ...Show more