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In the polished works of edith wharton, old new york is a society at once infinitely sophisticated and ruthlessly primitive, in which. Reading that, i noticed how early in the book i identified with the central character even though her life was so much different from mine her life choices and her perspective on life. Newland archer, a restrained young attorney, is engaged to the lovely may welland but falls in. Buy the age of innocence book online at best prices in india on. It won the 1921 pulitzer prize for fiction, making wharton the first woman to win the prize.
As young newland archer, lawyer and man about town, gazes up at his soontobe fiance, may welland, in the mingottfamily opera box, he is disconcerted by the arrival of mays cousin, the countess ellen olenska, who has left her profligate but wealthy polish husband. Her research is meticulous, her characters believable, and her prose and poetry flow. The age of innocence, for which wharton won the pulitzer prize in 1920, is one of her most memorable novels. The age of innocence by edith wharton free online book and. I reread these semi regularly and enjoy them every time. This may just be the book dean koontz was born to write. In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic old revolutionary stock families that rule new yorks social life.
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