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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>One of Wharton's most renowned novels--and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize--exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibility through the experiences of men and women in Gilded Age New York. - With an introduction by Peter Washington</b></p><p>The novel follows Newland Archer, a young, aristocratic lawyer engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. When May's disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her marriage to a Polish Count, her worldly, independent nature intrigues Archer, who soon falls in love with her. Trapped by his passionless relationship with May and the social conventions that forbid a relationship with Ellen, Archer finds himself torn between possibility and duty.</p><p>Wharton's profound understanding of her characters' lives makes the triangle of Archer, May, and Ellen come to life with an irresistible urgency. A wry, incisive look at the ways in which love and emotion must negotiate the complex rules of high society, <i>The Age of Innocence</i> is one of Wharton's finest, most illuminative works.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Elegiac...a novel of cruelty, loss, and grief." --Hermione Lee <p/>"Flawlessly executed...distinguished....a sad and beautiful love story, a brilliant satirical study." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"Wharton's touch is the deftest, the surest, of all our American manipulators in the novel." --<i>The New Republic</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Edith Wharton was born into a privileged New York family in 1862 and died in France in 1937. In addition to her works as a novelist, most famously The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country, and Ethan Frome, she also was a renowned interior designer, and was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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