The Age of Innocence [Hardcover]

Edith Whartons Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,The Age of Innocence,is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world  the Gilded Age of New York City.

Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own collection. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk, author ofOutline.

As the scion of one of New Yorks leading families, Newland Archer has been born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. But the arrival of the Countess Olenska, a free spirit who breathes clouds of European sophistication, makes him question the path on which his upbringing has set him. As his fascination with her grows, he discovers just how hard it is to escape the bonds of the society that has shaped him. The novel was the inspiration for Martin Scorsese's film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with this witty satire of New Yorks upper classes, presented in a beautiful collector's edition.Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married, and the couple travelled frequently to Europe. They settled in France, where Wharton stayed through divorce in 1913 and until her death. Her first major novel wasThe House of Mirth(1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, includingEthan Frome(1911) andThe Reef(1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature withThe Age of Innocence(1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War. She died in 19lƒ.