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UNINA9910155519503321 |
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Wharton Edith |
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The age of innocence / / Edith Wharton |
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New York, New York : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (864 p.) |
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) |
Upper class |
Married people |
New York (N.Y.) Fiction |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Edith Wharton's Pullitzer prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence (1920) is a portrayal of New York's upper class society during the 1870s. Newland Archer is a wealthy socialite who's poised to marry May Welland, a perfectly pure and faultlessly suitable mate. When Archer meets May's scandalous cousin, Countess Olenska, whose unconventional views and shady past make her unique, his good intentions waver. The Countess by comparison casts May as a dull and manufactured product of New York's stifled upper-class. What results is a subtle and well-wrought drama that has been read and loved for ne |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00133894 |
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Autore |
Evans, Rhodri |
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The Cosmic Microwave Background : How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe / Rhodri Evans |
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Titolo uniforme |
The Cosmic Microwave Background : How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe |
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00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020] |
01-XX - History and biography [MSC 2020] |
85-XX - Astronomy and Astrophysics [MSC 2020] |
85A40 - Cosmology [MSC 2020] |
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