HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'I want - I want somehow to get away with you
into a world where words like that - categories like that - won't
exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each
other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on
earth will matter.' Newland Archer, a successful and charming young
lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite,
upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to
the pretty and conventional May Welland, his attachment guarantees
his place in this rigid world of the elite. However, the arrival of
May's cousin, the exotic and beautiful European Countess Olenska
throws Newland's life upside down. A divorcee, Olenska is
ostracised by those around her, yet Newland is fiercely drawn to
her wit, determination and willingness to flout convention. With
the Countess, Newland is freed from the limitations that surround
him and truly begins to 'feel' for the first time. Wharton's subtle
expose of the manners and etiquette of 1870s New York society is
both comedic, subtle, satirical and cynical in style and paints an
evocative picture of a man torn between his passion and his
obligation.
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