The Age of Innocence Annotated Edition — Edith Wharton

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 Tanıtım Bülteninden