The Age of Innocence - (Penguin Vitae) by Edith Wharton (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman. <p/>A Penguin Vitae Edition</b> <p/>Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May's cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of perceived scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her worldliness, disregard for society's rules, and air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland, despite his enthusiasm about a marriage to May and the societal advantages it would bring. Almost against their will, Newland and Ellen develop a passionate bond, and a classic love triangle takes shape as the three young people find themselves drawn into a poignant and bitter conflict between love and duty. Written in 1920, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a time and place long gone by--1870s New York City--beautifully captures the complexities of passion, independence, and fulfillment, and how painfully hard it can be for individuals to truly see one another and their place in the world. <p/>Penguin Classics presents Penguin Vitae, loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life," a deluxe hardcover series featuring a dynamic landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction that has shaped the course of our readers' lives. Penguin Vitae invites readers to find themselves in a diverse world of storytellers, with beautifully designed classic editions of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Wharton is not generally viewed as one of literature's great optimists, and yet, by the last chapter of <i>The Age of Innocence</i>, people are a little less hypocritical, a little more willing to see and accept the world. ... <i>A larger life and more tolerant views</i> that's the greatest promise the novel holds out to us, and it's as necessary now as it was when Edith Wharton put it into words."<br><b>--Elif Batuman, author of <i>The Idiot</i>, from the foreword</b> <p/>"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?"<br><b>--E. M. Forster</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Edith Wharton</b> (1862-1937) was born Edith Newbold Jones. A member of a distinguished New York family, she was educated privately in America and abroad. During her life, she published more than forty volumes: novels, stories, verse, essays, travel books, and memoirs. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for <i>The Age of Innocence</i>, in 1921. <p/><b>Elif Batuman</b> is the author of <i>The Idiot</i>, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, and <i>The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them</i>, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at the <i>New Yorker</i> since 2010. <p/><b>Sarah Blackwood</b> is an associate professor of English at Pace University. Her criticism has appeared in the <i>New Yorker</i>, the <i>New Republic</i>, the <i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>, and elsewhere.
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