The Age of Innocence (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140037845 ISBN 13: 9780140037845

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1974

Synopsis

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Price for fiction and the basis of the sumptuous 1993 Martin Scorsese movie, Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’ shows no sign of losing popularity as each new generation embraces this devastating tale of love and loss set amongst the upper classes in 1870s New York.

The story centers on a couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness.

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Review

"Is it--in this world--vulgar to ask for more? To entreat a little wildness, a dark place or two in the soul?"--Katherine Mansfield

"There is no woman in American literature as fascinating as the doomed Madame Olenska. . . . Traditionally, Henry James has always been placed slightly higher up the slope of Parnassus than Edith Wharton. But now that the prejudice against the female writer is on the wane, they look to be exactly what they are: giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature."--Gore Vidal

"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?"--E. M. Forster

From the Publisher

A Norton Critical Edition. The editor, Candace Waid is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140037845
• ISBN 13: 9780140037845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304