EAN: 9781509890033

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - EDITH WHARTON GEBUNDEN

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize  Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is a poignant tale of love
and desire set against the backdrop of Gilded Age New York  brought to life in this stunning
clothbound edition from Macmillan Collector's Library.   Part of the Macmillan Collector's
Library  a series of stunning  clothbound  pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and
ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers or wonderful
additions to your own collection. This edition features an introduction by award-winning
novelist Rachel Cusk  author of Outline.  Born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict
duty as the scion of one of New York's leading families  Newland Archer finds his path
questioned with the arrival of the free-spirited Countess Olenska and her clouds of European
sophistication. As his fascination with her grows  he discovers the bonds of the society that
shaped him are not so easily escaped. The Age of Innocence is at once a satirical record of a
now-vanished world  and a timeless story of frustrated love. It was the inspiration for Martin
Scorsese's film of the same name  starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.

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