{"product_id":"the-age-of-innocence-9781509890033","title":"The Age of Innocence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist, Rachel Cusk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence, \u003c\/i\u003e is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the scion of one of New York's leading families, Newland Archer has been born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. But the arrival of the Countess Olenska, a free spirit who breathes clouds of European sophistication, makes him question the path on which his upbringing has set him. As his fascination with her grows, he discovers just how hard it is to escape the bonds of the society that has shaped him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including \u003ci\u003eEthan Frome\u003c\/i\u003e (1911) and \u003ci\u003eThe Reef\u003c\/i\u003e (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641435296018,"sku":"9781509890033","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a8aff98-2088-471f-bb8a-4a5afa74c06b.jpg?v=1749035116","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-age-of-innocence-9781509890033","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}