The Age of Innocence (The Norton Library)

Edith Wharton (Autor)

Sheila Liming (Herausgeber)

Online Resource

352 Seiten

2022
WW Norton & Co (Hersteller)
978-0-393-87057-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence depicts with masterful irony and nostalgic detail a vanished world—the glittering, elite society of “Gilded Age” New York—at the height of its power and on the brink of its demise. When Newland Archer’s comfortable future is thrown into uncertainty by the arrival of the brazenly unconventional Ellen Olenska, subtle consequences unfold as Wharton’s characters navigate conflicts of passion and propriety, demonstrating the genius of a great American novelist “at the top of her game” (Ta-Nehisi Coates).

Autor

Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones on January 24, 1862, to a wealthy New York City family. Best known for her novels, Wharton’s illustrious literary career also included poetry, short stories, design books, and travelogues. She gained widespread recognition with the 1905 publication of The House of Mirth, a darkly comic portrait of New York aristocracy. In 1921, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920), becoming the fi rst woman to claim it. Wharton moved to France in 1913, where she remained until her death. In addition to her many literary accolades, Wharton was awarded a French Legion of Honor medal for her humanitarian efforts during World War I. Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937. Sheila Liming is Associate Professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. She is the author of What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and creator of the web database EdithWhartonsLibrary.org. Her other books include Office (2020), published through Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series, and a scholarly edition of Wharton's novel Twilight Sleep (forthcoming through Oxford University Press). Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Lapham's Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and The Chronicle Review.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2022
• Reihe/Serie: The Norton Library
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-393-87057-X / 039387057X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-87057-2 / 9780393870572
• Zustand: Neuware