{"product_id":"the-age-of-innocence-introduction-by-peter-washington-9780307268204","title":"The Age of Innocence: Introduction by Peter Washington","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Wharton's most renowned novels--and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize--exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibility through the experiences of men and women in Gilded Age New York. - With an introduction by Peter Washington\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel follows Newland Archer, a young, aristocratic lawyer engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. When May's disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her marriage to a Polish Count, her worldly, independent nature intrigues Archer, who soon falls in love with her. Trapped by his passionless relationship with May and the social conventions that forbid a relationship with Ellen, Archer finds himself torn between possibility and duty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWharton's profound understanding of her characters' lives makes the triangle of Archer, May, and Ellen come to life with an irresistible urgency. A wry, incisive look at the ways in which love and emotion must negotiate the complex rules of high society, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Wharton's finest, most illuminative works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdith Wharton was born into a privileged New York family in 1862 and died in France in 1937. In addition to her works as a novelist, most famously The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country, and Ethan Frome, she also was a renowned interior designer, and was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641971118354,"sku":"9780307268204","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7dfb830d-b3df-41e9-a883-77644bdd2144.jpg?v=1744218885","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-age-of-innocence-introduction-by-peter-washington-9780307268204","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}