| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 330 pages). |
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Penguin twentieth-century classics |
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Penguin twentieth-century classics.
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| Summary |
When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit and Jamesian mastery of form create a disturbingly accurate picture of men and women caught in a society that denies humanity while desperately defending "civilization." |
| Audience |
1170L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.8 19 10826 |
| Summary |
As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-330). |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
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Separated people -- Fiction.
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Upper class -- Fiction.
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Manners and customs. |
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Separated people. |
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) |
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Upper class. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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New York (State) -- New York. |
| Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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Love stories.
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Electronic books. |
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Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Age of innocence New York : Penguin, 1996 014018970X (DLC) 95030951 (OCoLC)32819016 |
| ISBN |
9781101157428 : $33.00 |
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1101157429 : $33.00 |
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