Newland Archer and May Welland have just announced their engagement
to New York society, and the match seems perfect -- until Archer
meets Countess Olenska, a sharp, beautiful woman in the midst of a
divorce . . . it's for good reason this book won Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Prize.
"Is it -- in this world -- vulgar to ask for more? To entreat a
little wildness, a dark place or two in the soul?"
-- Katherine Mansfield
"There is no woman in American literature as fascinating as the
doomed Madame Olenska. . . . Traditionally, Henry James has always
been placed slightly higher up the slope of Parnassus than Edith
Wharton. But now that the prejudice against the female writer is on
the wane, they look to be exactly what they are: giants, equals,
the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature."
-- Gore Vidal
"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and
alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her
tradition?"
-- E.M. Forster
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