The Age of Innocence (Collins Classics)
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'I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’
Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, his attachment guarantees his place in this rigid world of the elite.
However, the arrival of May’s cousin, the exotic and beautiful European Countess Olenska throws Newland’s life upside down. A divorcee, Olenska is ostracised by those around her, yet Newland is fiercely drawn to her wit, determination and willingness to flout convention. With the Countess, Newland is freed from the limitations that surround him and truly begins to ‘feel’ for the first time.
Wharton’s subtle exposé of the manners and etiquette of 1870s New York society is both comedic, subtle, satirical and cynical in style and paints an evocative picture of a man torn between his passion and his obligation.
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Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American author whose life and work spanned, criticised and came to exemplify the turn of the twentieth century. She produced novels, novellas, short stories, poetry and non-fiction on design, travel and culture, as well as a memoir with social comedy and realism that is often compared to Jane Austen. In 1921 she was the first woman to be recognised with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel capturing the rigid social mores of the 1870s New York elite, The Age of Innocence. Her most famous novels include The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913), Summer (1917) and several short stories. Her novels are particularly celebrated for capturing a formative period of American history with naturalism, emotional intensity and opulent description.
