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  1. Oct 21, 2021 · Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton. 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...

  2. 175,944 ratings10,564 reviews. 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.”.

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  4. Apr 6, 2020 · Call me crazy but with a bit of digging, there are examples of empowered women within the Gilded Age to be found, and I love finding them. I was pleasantly surprised that The Age of Innocence contains one of them.

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    Once again, from Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Timeby Louis Auchincloss, a portrait of Newland Archer, the conflicted main character of the novel: “He may be the best of his world, but the best, we feel, is none too good. He is burstingly complacent, delighted with his own fine, vigorous youth, with his promising but not taxing law practice, with t...

    From the original review in the Washington Times, November, 1920: Edith Whartonhas been called the foremost American novelist by both American and European critics, so a new book from her pen is an event eagerly anticipated. In The Age of Innocenceshe has produced a book which is the best, from every point of view, she has yet done. The Age of Inno...

    One important plot point the review left out, perhaps due to the indelicacy of the subject for the matter for its time was this: At a critical juncture in their clandestine relationship, Countess Ellen Olenska agrees with Newland to consummate their affair. He has decided to leave his young wife, May, and follow Ellen, who is set to return to Europ...

  5. Jul 28, 2014 · The 100 best novels: No 45 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) The story of a blighted New York marriage stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture. Robert McCrum ...

  6. 1 day ago. -- Warning: this review contains spoilers. In 1911 Edith Wharton published the predecessor to The Age of Innocence: Ethan Frome, a near perfect (albeit short) novel that tells...

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