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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. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize.
- Edith Wharton
- United States
- 1920
- 1920
Oct 1, 1993 · A 1993 drama romance film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder. Set in 19th-century New York, it tells the story of a young lawyer who falls in love with a woman separated from her husband.
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- Drama, Romance
- Martin Scorsese
- 1993-10-01
The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, was written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and Miriam Margolyes, and was released by Columbia Pictures.
- October 1, 1993
- Barbara De Fina
A summary of the plot of The Age of Innocence, a novel by Edith Wharton about a young man who falls in love with his cousin's fiancée and faces social and moral challenges. The summary covers the main events, themes, characters, and literary devices of the novel, as well as its historical context and style.
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.
- Edith Wharton
- 1920
Aug 14, 2005 · A film adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel about a man of tradition who loves two women, one of them a countess who defies the social codes of New York society in the 1870s. Scorsese's visual and thematic treatment of the brutality beneath the manners, the passion and violence, and the social codes of the era is stunning.
A classic novel by Edith Wharton about the love triangle of Newland Archer, May Welland, and Countess Ellen Olenska in 19th-century New York. Read the plot overview, character list, essays, and further study suggestions for this book.
