Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781725896857)

Newland Archer, the ambivalent protagonist, represents the apogee of good breeding. He is the ultimate insider in post-Civil War New York society. Although engaged to May Welland, a beautiful and proper fellow member of elite society, he is attracted to the free-spirited Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin and a former member of their circle who has been living in Europe but has left her husband, a cruel Polish nobleman, under mysterious circumstances and returned to her family's New York milieu. His upcoming marriage to the young socialite will unite two of New York's oldest families, but from the novel's opening pages, Olenska imports a passionate intensity and mysterious Old World eccentricity that disrupt the conventional world of order-obsessed New York. Ellen's hopes of being set free from her past are dashed when she is forced to choose between conformity and exile, while Newland's appointment by the Welland family as Ellen's legal consultant begins an emotional entanglement the force of which he could never have imagined.

Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN-10: 1725896850
ISBN-13: 9781725896857
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.8
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10826 / Age of Innocence