The Age of Innocence
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 1921
(Sprache: Englisch)
Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with this witty satire of New York's upper classes, presented in a beautiful collector's edition.
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Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with this witty satire of New York's upper classes, presented in a beautiful collector's edition.
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Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist, Rachel Cusk.
As the scion of one of New York's leading families, Newland Archer has been born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. But the arrival of the Countess Olenska, a free spirit who breathes clouds of European sophistication, makes him question the path on which his upbringing has set him. As his fascination with her grows, he discovers just how hard it is to escape the bonds of the society that has shaped him.
Autoren-Porträt von Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edith Wharton
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2019, Main Market Ed., 384 Seiten, Maße: 9,8 x 15,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 1509890033
- ISBN-13: 9781509890033
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A great city's greatest novelist . . . Wharton's late masterpiece stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture and in desperate need of a European sensibility Robert McCrum Guardian
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