The age of innocence
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '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.
