Author: Edith WhartonRomance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in tragic love triangle. Ironically-titled story chronicles grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's.
Author: Edith WhartonWharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is at once a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical portrait of a vanished world."--Publisher's website.
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Author: Edith Wharton" This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her.
Author: Edith WhartonYet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic, beautiful 30-year-old cousin, who has been living in Europe. This novel won the first ever Pulitzer awarded to a woman.
Author: Edith WhartonEdith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s.
Author: Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, was written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks.
Author: Edith WhartonThe story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the Gilded Age. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author with publishers clamoring for her work.
Author: Newland Archer's future is settled--now that he's engaged to the sweet and respectable May Welland, he's about to fulfill all the expectations of New York society. but the moment that May's cousin the Countess Olenska, steps into the family ...
Author: Edith WhartonEngaged to the docile May Welland, Newland Archer falls madly in love with the nonconformist Countess Olenska, an older woman with a reputation, but his allegiance to the social code of their set makes their love an impossibility.
