The age of innocence
By: Edith Wharton, edited by Orton Lowe
Publisher: D. Appleton-Century Co.
Published: 1932
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Social life and customs; Man-woman relationships; Marriage; Manners and customs; Upper class; Fiction
Description: An elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870's, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets May's cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence.