The Age of Innocence: Love Confronts Tradition in Wharton's Captivating Novel

A Masterful Tale of Forbidden Love. In "The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton crafts a poignant exploration of love constrained by societal expectations. Follow Newland Archer as he grapples with his impending marriage to May Welland and his profound attraction to the scandalous Countess Ellen Olenska.

Uncover the Splendor and Hypocrisy of 1870s New York. Wharton uses her sharp narrative to dissect the norms of a society that prizes appearance over authenticity. Each page of this novel is draped in the luxury of the upper class, yet filled with the silent battles of personal freedom.

Critically Acclaimed and Universally Cherished. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize and esteemed as a pivotal work of American literature, "The Age of Innocence" is celebrated for its deep character studies and its incisive criticism of the opulence and moral rigidity of its time.

A Book That Resonates Across Ages. Wharton's novel remains profoundly relevant, reflecting the eternal clash between societal expectations and the wild, often reckless beats of the human heart.

Unlock the Secrets of Old New York! Purchase your copy of "The Age of Innocence" today and dive into a world where love dares to challenge the rules of society.


  1. Die größten Heldinnen der Literatur (50 Romane in einem Band)

    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Leo Tolstoi, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, Sinclair Lewis, Hedwig Dohm, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, Daniel Defoe, Anne Brontë, L.M. Montgomery, Victor Hugo, Wilhelmine von Hillern, Adalbert Stifter, Luise Ahlborn, George Eliot, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Stefan Zweig, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, Margaret Mitchell, Edith Wharton, Miles Franklin, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskow, Theodore Dreiser, Elizabeth von Arnim, Colette, Honoré de Balzac, William Makepeace Thackeray, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Theodor Fontane, Ada Langworthy Collier, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Johanna Schopenhauer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens

    book
  2. Coming Home

    Edith Wharton

    book
  3. Dämmerschlaf

    Edith Wharton

    book
  4. Das Riff

    Edith Wharton

    book
  5. 100 Amerikanische Klassiker - Meisterwerke, die man kennen muss

    Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Jack London, Stephen Crane, L. Frank Baum, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Elbert Hubbard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ambrose Bierce, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lew Wallace, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Norman Hall, Edgar Allan Poe, O.Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, James Fenimore Cooper, Edward Bellamy, Bret Harte, Max Brand, Zane Grey, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Margaret Mitchell, Henry James, Theodor Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, Warwick Deeping, Thomas Wolfe, Harriet Beecher Stowe

    book
  6. Las costumbres del país : Una novela histórica y romántica

    Edith Wharton

    book
  7. La casa de la alegría : Una novela histórica y romántica

    Edith Wharton

    book
  8. Estío : Una novela histórica y romántica

    Edith Wharton

    book
  9. Ethan Frome

    Edith Wharton

    book
  10. Viejo Nueva York

    Edith Wharton

    book
  11. Las bucaneras : Sueños americanos, reglas británicas: La fuerza de mujeres rebeldes y el poder de la amistad

    Edith Wharton

    book
  12. The Custom of the Country

    Edith Wharton

    audiobookbook