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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Paperback

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS

Rs 400

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FictionClassicsLiteratureSatire/HumorEnglish
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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/I&&Rpulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RWinner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, &&LI&&RThe Age of Innocence&&L/I&&R is &&LB&&REdith Wharton&&L/B&&R’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”&&LBR&&R&&LBR&&RThis is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.&&LBR&&R&&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R&&LSTRONG&&RMaureen Howard&&L/B&&R&&L/B&&R is a critic, teacher, and writer of fiction. Her seven novels include &&LI&&RBridgeport Bus&&L/I&&R, &&LI&&RNatural History&&L/I&&R, and &&LI&&RA Lover’s Almanac&&L/I&&R. Her memoir, &&LI&&RFacts of Life&&L/I&&R, won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. She has taught at Yale and Columbia University.&&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R

All Editions

9780007368648
Paperback, 9th Edition
ISBN13: 9780007368648
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2016
9780143134817
Hardcover, 5th Edition
ISBN13: 9780143134817
Penguin Classics (HC), 2021
9781593081430
Paperback, 27th Edition
ISBN13: 9781593081430
Barnes Noble Classics, 2004
9780684842370
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780684842370
Scribner, 1998

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