Set in the glittering world of New York high society in the 1870s, well known to Edith Wharton and her friend Henry James, meet the alluring Countess Ellen Ollenska, an American who is living apart from her Polish husband.Shunned by'Good' American society, the novel explores her friendship with the highly conventional Newland Archer. A fasinating study of American psychology tinged by fear of decadent Europe and one of the greatest unconsummated love stories ever told.

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