The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman, now a part of the Penguin Vitae series.
Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman.
A Penguin Vitae Edition
Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May's cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of perceived scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her worldliness, disregard for society's rules, and air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland, despite his enthusiasm about a marriage to May and the societal advantages it would bring. Almost against their will, Newland and Ellen develop a passionate bond, and a classic love triangle takes shape as the three young people find themselves drawn into a poignant and bitter conflict between love and duty. Written in 1920, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a time and place long gone by-1870s New York City-beautifully captures the complexities of passion, independence, and fulfillment, and how painfully hard it can be for individuals to truly see one another and their place in the world.
Penguin Classics presents Penguin Vitae, loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life," a deluxe hardcover series featuring a dynamic landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction that has shaped the course of our readers' lives. Penguin Vitae invites readers to find themselves in a diverse world of storytellers, with beautifully designed classic editions of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman, now a part of the Penguin Vitae series.
Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman.
A Penguin Vitae Edition
Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May's cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of perceived scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her worldliness, disregard for society's rules, and air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland, despite his enthusiasm about a marriage to May and the societal advantages it would bring. Almost against their will, Newland and Ellen develop a passionate bond, and a classic love triangle takes shape as the three young people find themselves drawn into a poignant and bitter conflict between love and duty. Written in 1920, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a time and place long gone by-1870s New York City-beautifully captures the complexities of passion, independence, and fulfillment, and how painfully hard it can be for individuals to truly see one another and their place in the world.
Penguin Classics presents Penguin Vitae, loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life," a deluxe hardcover series featuring a dynamic landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction that has shaped the course of our readers' lives. Penguin Vitae invites readers to find themselves in a diverse world of storytellers, with beautifully designed classic editions of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of love, duty, and half-known
truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by
bestselling author Elif Batuman, now a part of the Penguin Vitae
series.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)wasbornEdithNewboldJones.A
memberofadistinguishedNewYorkfamily,shewaseducatedprivatelyin
Americaandabroad.Duringherlife,shepublishedmorethanfortyvolumes-
novels,stories,verse,essays,travelbooks,andmemoirs. She was the
first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Age of
Innocence, in 1921.
Elif Batumanistheauthorof The Idiot,afinalistforthe2018Pulitzer
Prizeinfiction,andThe Possessed- Adventures with Russian Books and
the People Who Read
Them,afinalistforaNationalBookCriticsCircleAwardin
criticism.Shehasbeenastaffwriteratthe New Yorkersince2010.
SarahBlackwoodisanassociateprofessorof
EnglishatPaceUniversity.HercriticismhasappearedintheNew Yorker,the
New Republic,theLos Angeles Review of Books,andelsewhere.
“Wharton is not generally viewed as one of literature’s great
optimists, and yet, by the last chapter of The Age of Innocence,
people are a little less hypocritical, a little more willing to see
and accept the world. ... A larger life and more tolerant views:
that’s the greatest promise the novel holds out to us, and it’s as
necessary now as it was when Edith Wharton put it into words.”
—Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot, from the foreword
“Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and
alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?”
—E. M. Forster
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