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'I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’
Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, his attachment guarantees his place in this rigid world of the elite.
However, the arrival of May’s cousin, the exotic and beautiful European Countess Olenska throws Newland’s life upside down. A divorcee, Olenska is ostracised by those around her, yet Newland is fiercely drawn to her wit, determination and willingness to flout convention. With the Countess, Newland is freed from the limitations that surround him and truly begins to ‘feel’ for the first time.
Wharton’s subtle exposé of the manners and etiquette of 1870s New York society is both comedic, subtle, satirical and cynical in style and paints an evocative picture of a man torn between his passion and his obligation.

The Age of Innocence (Collins Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

WHARTON,EDITH

Humor

William Collins

Tired of being shuttled back and forth among their parents, seven stepbrothers and stepsisters find an ally and protector in Martin Boyne, the forty-six-year-old bachelor in love with the children's fifteen-year-old sister

Children

Literature & Fiction

Scribner

As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down. By the author of Ethan Frome. Reprint. Movie tie-in. 350,000 first printing.

AGE OF INNOCENCE

United States

A New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for her cousin

Ethan Frome

Classics

With an introduction by Cyntya Griffin Wolff . 8vo pp. 276 Brossura (wrappers) Ottimo (Fine)

Roman Fever and Other Stories

Gathers selections from Wharton's memoirs, short stories, poetry, and major novels

Edith Wharton Reader

Collier Books

Custom of the Country

Scribner Paper Fiction

The four short novels in this collection by the author of The Age of Innocence are set in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, each one revealing the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton's. Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, these tales are vintage Wharton, dealing boldly with such themes as infidelity, illegitimacy, jealousy, the class system, and the condition of women in society. Included in this remarkable quartet are False Dawn, which concerns the stormy relationship between a domineering father and his son; The Old Maid, the best known of the four, in which a young woman's secret illegitimate child is adopted by her best friend -- with devastating results; The Spark, about a young man's moral rehabilitation, which is "sparked" by a chance encounter with Walt Whitman; and New Year's Day, an O. Henryesque tale of a married woman suspected of adultery. Old New York is Wharton at her finest.

Old New York

Study guides aid in the understanding of this story of a New England farmer

Literary

Pearson College Div

This book is one of the classic book of all time.

Summer

Harpercollins

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The Age of Innocence (Collins Classics)

Children

AGE OF INNOCENCE

Ethan Frome

Roman Fever and Other Stories

Edith Wharton Reader

Custom of the Country

Old New York

Ethan Frome

Summer