The age of innocence
By: Edith Wharton ; edited by Michael Nowlin.
Contributors: Nowlin, Michael Everett, 1962-
Series: Broadview literary texts
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont., Canada; Orchard Park, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Upper class -- Fiction; Nobility -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Age of Innocence marks the pinnacle of Edith Wharton's career as one of the finest American novelists of her era. The narrative follows Newland Archer, of upper-crust 1870s New York, whose passion for the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska leads him to question the very foundations of his way of life. Written in the aftermath of World War I, the novel explores the psychological and cultural paradoxes of desire in a world undergoing unprecedented transformations.".

"This edition includes a critical introduction and a range of appendices that contextualize the novel in terms of its modernist themes and tensions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-432).