Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer a member of one of New York s most prominent families is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out. However, with the arrival of May s cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Newland begins to doubt all that once seemed so natural to him. An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York high society in the 1870s the world in which Edith Wharton grew up The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order. ABOUT THE SERIES:

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