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Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman
she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high society life she had before her marriage. Her family and former friends, however, are shocked
by the idea of divorce within their social circle, and she finds herself snubbed by her own class. Ellen and Newland fall in love and must choose between passion and conventions.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Wharton’s characters leap out from the pages and...become very real. You know their hearts, souls, and yearnings and the price they pay for those yearnings.” —San Francisco Examiner
“Indispensable…A perfectly wrought book about an
era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American
and European extracts, and when ‘society’ had rules as rigid as any in history.” —Amazon.com
“Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend
of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?” —E. M. Forster
“There is no woman in American literature as
fascinating as the doomed Madame Olenska…Traditionally, Henry James has always
been placed slightly higher up the slope of Parnassus than Edith Wharton. But
now that the prejudice against the female writer is on the wane, they look to
be exactly what they are: giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our
American literature.”
—Gore Vidal
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is the author of several novels, including The Age of Innocence and Old New York, both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction. She was the first woman to receive that honor. In 1929 she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction. She was born in New York and is best known for her
stories of life among the upper-class society into which she was born. She was educated privately at home and in Europe. In 1894 she began writing fiction, and her novel The House of
Mirth established her as a leading writer.
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CD
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Category:
Fiction
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc.
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc.
CDs:
10
CDs:
10
Runtime:
11.79
ISBN:
9781664498341
ISBN:
9781664606173
Audience:
Adult
Language:
English
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