'Wharton's dazzling skills as a stylist,creator of character,ironical observer and unveiler of passionate,thwarted emotions have earned her a devoted following'Sunday TimesNewland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska,who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. To Newland,she is a breath of fresh air and a free spirit,but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.'Wharton evocatively records the high society of New York's gilded age'Daily Mail
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099511281Number of pages: 336Weight: 240 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
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America's greatest woman novelistI love virtually all of Edith Wharton,but this one's my favourite... I admire her prose style,which is lucid,intelligent,and artful rather than arty; she is eloquent but never fussy,and always clear. She never seems to be writing well to show off. As for The Age of Innocence,it's a poignant story that,typically for Wharton,illustrates the bind women found themselves in when trapped hazily between a demeaning if relaxing servitude and real if frightening independence,and that both sexes find themselves in when trapped between the demands of morality and the demands of the heart. The novel is romantic but not sentimental,and I'm a sucker for unhappy endingsThere 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 literatureWill writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her traditionWharton's dazzling skills as a stylist,creator of character,ironical observer and unveiler of passionate,thwarted emotions have earned her a devoted following
Edith Wharton
An expert chronicler of upper class American society at the turn of the twentieth century,Edith Wharton was the author of numerous acclaimed novels,including The House of Mirth,The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome.
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Best known for her critically acclaimed,bestselling We Need to Talk About Kevin,Lionel Shriver is an American author and journalist. Her most recent novel, The Motion of the Body Through Space,is published in May 2020.
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