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Title details for The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - Available

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton
Daniel Henning
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Edith Wharton brings the glamorous Gilded Age to life in this acclaimed 1920 novel. Distinguished heir Newland Archer is happily engaged to proper society darling May Welland–until the day he meets her cousin, the scandalous and bold (and married) Countess Ellen Olenska. Suddenly, his carefully planned future feels restrictive and stale. Ellen represents possibilities Newland has never before imagined, but is he already too entrenched in New York society to take such a leap? Tradition, progress, and obligation vibrate with tension in the book that established Wharton as the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.

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    June 25, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9798868746390
      • File size: 354311 KB
      • Duration: 12:18:08

  • Languages

    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Like an autocrat of a nineteenth-century drawing room, Daniel Henning captures the pedantic wit of Edith Wharton's keenly observant masterpiece about a "long vanished America," which won a 1921 Pulitzer Prize. It's the Gilded Age of the 1870s, and a young scion of one of New York's finest and most influential families is about to marry the girl of his dreams, also a member of New York's high society. Then he meets her exotic, sophisticated cousin, who just happens to be unhappily married to a Polish count. As our hero is torn between two loves, Henning nicely accentuates Wharton's light and ironic tone in describing the never-ending parties, the gossip, and society's insatiable appetite for scandal. A tour de force of American literature. B.P. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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