The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith - 1962-04-01

Signet Classics. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Mass Market Paperback edition. (Historical fiction, Romance fiction, New York). A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

A Signet Classic / New American Library., 1962. 7th printing. CQ421.. Mass-market paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. Lambert (Victorian couple in front of heart cover illustration by).. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, first published in 1920, inquiring into the totems and taboos of 19th century New York elite, which cripple more natural behavior. Handsome attorney Newland Archer's interest in his wife flags, as the bizarre and challenging Countess Ellen Olenska enters his life. Wharton, born Jones in New York, 1862, settled permanently in Paris, 1913, upon her divorce, and died there in 1937. Her best known novel is Ethan Frome (1911).

New York NY: Signet Books. 1962. Seventh Printing. Paperback. 0451501063 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Creases in spine; Foreword by Louis Auchincloss. As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down. ; Mass Market PB; 288 pages .

New York NY: Signet Books. 1962. Fifth Printing. Paperback. 0451501063 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Creases in spine and cover, sticker on front cover; As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down. ; Mass Market PB; 288 pages .

New York. 1962. April 1962. Signet/New American Library. 1st Printing of This Signet Classic Edition. Mark On Bottom Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0451501063. Foreword By Louis Auchincloss. 288 pages. paperback. CT106. Cover: Lambert. keywords: Signet Classic America Women Literature Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, Edith Wharton has written the story of an affable conformist whose marriage of convenience cannot extinguish his passion for another woman . and whose moral limitations make both women seem unreal to him. Handsome, affluent, with great promise as a lawyer, Newland Archer's interest in his cold, beautiful, and conventional wife gradually flags. His attraction to Countess Ellen Olenska - bizarre and challenging, separated from her husband - becomes the single threat to his secure position in high society, and, at the same time, leads him to question the values of that society. The Age of Innocence is a highly sophisticated inquiry into the… Read More