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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”
Jun 5, 2024 · The Age of Innocence, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal.
Oct 21, 2021 · This tale of Gilded Age New York City became, in 1921, the first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Naï Zakharia. Share full article. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton | Review first...
A short summary of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Age of Innocence.
The Age of Innocence is thematically connected to the novella Ethan Frome, one of Wharton’s most famous works. Both works deal with unhappy marriages and have male protagonists who fall in love with their wives’ cousins.
One of Wharton’s most famous novels—the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize—exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York. Newland Archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland.
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The Age of Innocence. Newland Archer, a wealthy young man in 1870s New York City, is engaged to the beautiful, seemingly conventional May Welland. And then the beautiful, decidedly unconventional Ellen Olenska, May’s cousin, returns from Europe. So begins The Age of Innocence.
May 1, 1996 · The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Movie Books. In Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
