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简介：Book Description Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. "The Age of Innocence" is a satirical and sometimes dark comedy of manners which explores the "eternal triangle" of love, against the backdrop of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. Amazon.com Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. From AudioFile Welcome to the New York of the 1870's, where everyone in the upper crust fits into the mold or is ostracized for nonconformity. In spite of having married the socially suitable May, Weland Archer wishes to be unconventional and sees the Countess Olenska as a role model at the same time that he falls in love with her. Wanda McCaddon is a perfect narrator for this book. Her voice is as cold and sharp as the society she reads about. Through her intonation and phrasing, a stifling Victorian mask drops over each character. As Wharton describes a society long ago, McCaddon brings it to life in a dry, droll, appropriately uncaptivating manner. M.B.K. The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal. In the story Newland Archer, though engaged to May Welland, a beautiful and proper fellow member of elite society, is attracted to Ellen Olenska, a former member of their circle who has been living in Europe but who has left her husband under mysterious circumstances and returned to her family's New York milieu. May prevails by subtly adhering to the conventions of that world. The novel was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Book Dimension : length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6 　

The age of innocence /

作者：  by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by R.W.B. Lewis.

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简介：　　edith wharton's masterpiece,first published in 1920,brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age.set among the very rich in 1870s new york,it tells the mesmerizing story of a man caught between his passion and society's demands.newland archer is a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite may welland,when he meets her cousin,countess ellen olenska,a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal.archer considers his fiancee an innocent ,her worldly cousin a femme fatale.as all three are arawn into a love triangle filled with sensuality,subtlety,and betrayal,archer faces a harrowing choice between happiness and the social code that has ruled his entire life,the result ia a tale of thwarted love filled with irony and surprise,struggle and acceptance,recipient of the first pulitzer prizefor fiction ever awarded to a woman,this gregt novel of manners paints a timeless portrait of "society"still unmatched in american literature-an arbitrary,capricious social elite that professes inviolable standards,but will readily abolish them for money,or abandon them for desire. 　　 　　 作者简介: 　　 edith wharton the upper stratum of new york society into which edith wharton was born in 1862provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist.educated by tutors and governesses,she was raised for only one career:marriage.but her marriage,in 1885,to edward wharton was an emotional disappointment ,if not a disaster.she suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1984.in spite of the strain of her marriage,or perhaps because of it ,she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889.

Summer /

作者：  by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by Susan Minot.

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简介： 在线阅读本书 Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s Summercreated a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening. Summeris the story of Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of women’s romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly independent modern woman—in touch with her emotions and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of heredity and society. Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Summerremains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.

Ethan Frome and other short fiction /

作者：  by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by Mary Gordon.

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简介：     On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity.          Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, “The Last Asset,” “The Other Two,” and “Xingu.” Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of America’s finest writers.

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简介：Examples are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Hester Pryme from The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Molly Bloom from Ulysses by James Joyce, Isabel Archer from The portrait of a lady, Gwendolyn Harleth from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, and Lily Bart from The house of mirth by Edith Wharton.