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Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9781857152029
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Everyman
Edition: New edition
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With this novel about the anguish of loving, and society's brutal treatment of those who transgress its codes, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New York during the 1870s, reveals terrifying chasms under the polished surface of upper-class society as the increasingly fraught Archer struggles with conflicting obligations and desires. The first woman to do so, Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for this dark comedy of manners which was immediately recognized as one of her greatest achievements.
| ISBN | 1857152026 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9781857152029
(What's this?) | | Pages | 368 | | Publisher | Everyman | | Weight (grammes) | 510 | | Imprint | Everyman's Library | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Everyman's Library classics | | Publication date | 16 Sep 1993 | | Height (mm) | 209 | | Non-book description | acid-free paper | | Width (mm) | 134 | | Writer of introduction | Peter Washington (General Editor, "Everyman's Library") | | Spine width (mm) | 26 | | DEWEY | 813.52 | | Academic level | General |
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