Age Innocence Annotated Edition (Alma Classics

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer a member of one of New Yorks most prominent families is living the life that has always been expected of him he is engaged to the beautiful and wellconnected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out. However, with the arrival of Mays cousin, the freespirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Newland begins to doubt all that once seemed so natural to him. An extraordinarily wellobserved dissection of New York high society in the 1870s the world in which Edith Wharton grew up The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order. | Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence : Annotated Edition (Alma Classics