Three Novels of New York: The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 1914-1918 hopeful book

hopeful book

Despised as a weakling and dismissed as an idiot because of his physical infirmities

even in the most mundane circumstances

in which the themes consistent within her work emerge with new force and clarity: disenfranchisement

passion for skydiving and stock-car racing

Three Novels of New York: The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 1914-1918 hopeful bookAuthor Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith; Franzen, Jonathan; Gray, Richard Publisher: Penguin Classics Date: 2 29 2012 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in