The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton, Elif Batuman, Sarah Blackwood , Laura Dluzynski Quinn

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English

Penguin Classics
10 February 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical romance

Series: Penguin Vitae

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman, now a part of the Penguin Vitae series.

A Penguin Classic Hardcover

Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman.

A Penguin Vitae Edition

Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May's cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of perceived scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her worldliness, disregard for society's rules, and air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland, despite his enthusiasm about a marriage to May and the societal advantages it would bring. Almost against their will, Newland and Ellen develop a passionate bond, and a classic love triangle takes shape as the three young people find themselves drawn into a poignant and bitter conflict between love and duty. Written in 1920, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a time and place long gone by-1870s New York City-beautifully captures the complexities of passion, independence, and fulfillment, and how painfully hard it can be for individuals to truly see one another and their place in the world.

Penguin Classics presents Penguin Vitae, loosely translated as ""Penguin of one's life,"" a deluxe hardcover series featuring a dynamic landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction that has shaped the course of our readers' lives. Penguin Vitae invites readers to find themselves in a diverse world of storytellers, with beautifully designed classic editions of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

By: Edith Wharton
Notes by: Laura Dluzynski Quinn
Foreword by: Elif Batuman
Introduction by: Sarah Blackwood
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 448g
ISBN: 9780143134817
ISBN 10: 0143134817
Series: Penguin Vitae
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 10 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)wasbornEdithNewboldJones.A memberofadistinguishedNewYorkfamily,shewaseducatedprivatelyin Americaandabroad.Duringherlife,shepublishedmorethanfortyvolumes- novels,stories,verse,essays,travelbooks,andmemoirs. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Age of Innocence, in 1921. Elif Batumanistheauthorof The Idiot,afinalistforthe2018Pulitzer Prizeinfiction,andThe Possessed- Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,afinalistforaNationalBookCriticsCircleAwardin criticism.Shehasbeenastaffwriteratthe New Yorkersince2010. SarahBlackwoodisanassociateprofessorof EnglishatPaceUniversity.HercriticismhasappearedintheNew Yorker,the New Republic,theLos Angeles Review of Books,andelsewhere.

Reviews for The Age of Innocence

Wharton is not generally viewed as one of literature's great optimists, and yet, by the last chapter of The Age of Innocence, people are a little less hypocritical, a little more willing to see and accept the world. ... A larger life and more tolerant views that's the greatest promise the novel holds out to us, and it's as necessary now as it was when Edith Wharton put it into words. --Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot, from the foreword Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition? --E. M. Forster