The Age Of Innocence Book Cover

The Age Of Innocence Book Cover. Football in the 1970s refers to the sport which is called soccer in the usa. In edith wharton's twelfth novel 'the age of innocence', we meet archer newland, a young lawyer living in new york in the 1870s, who has been looking forward to his marriage to the naive and lovely may welland, a society beauty whose sheltered upbringing and training has turned her into a young woman destined to become the perfect wife and mother.

Newland archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the cloistered, beautiful may welland. Please, consider this image only as a reference, it will not always be the exact cover used in the edition of the published book. Ellen, fleeing a bad marriage to a polish count, seeks a divorce.

The author of more than forty books, including the age of innocence, wharton was the first woman awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction, an honorary doctorate of letters from yale university, and full membership in the american academy of arts and letters.

(cover of the grosset & dunlap 1920 edition below; Wikimedia commons) i like stories about the constraints on human lives, whether enforced through psychology, history, or social pressures, and the age of innocence is one of those stories. The age of innocence is a 1995 photography and poetry book by david hamilton. But when may’s cousin ellen arrives from europe, fleeing her failed.