Name: The Age of Innocence is a 1920 NOVEL by: Edith Wharton which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.
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Author: Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781542760232

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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 NOVEL by: Edith Wharton which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

184

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781542760232

Synopsis "The Age of Innocence is a 1920 NOVEL by: Edith Wharton which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize."

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The novel takes place among New York City's upper class during the 1870s, before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles; when there was a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolutionary stock" families that ruled New York's social life; when "being things" was better than "doing things" - one's occupation or abilities were secondary to heredity and family connections, when reputation and outward appearances came at the exclusion of everything and everyone else, and when 5th Avenue was so deserted by nightfall that it was possible to follow the comings and goings of society by watching who went to which household. First published in four parts during July to October 1920 in the Pictorial Review and then in the same year by D. Appleton and Company in New York and in London.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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