Synopsis
Newland Archer comes to question the values of high society in Victorian New York
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Review
"America's greatest woman novelist" (Sunday Times)
"I love virtually all of Edith Wharton, but this one's my favourite... I admire her prose style, which is lucid, intelligent, and artful rather than arty; she is eloquent but never fussy, and always clear. She never seems to be writing well to show off. As for The Age of Innocence, it's a poignant story that, typically for Wharton, illustrates the bind women found themselves in when trapped hazily between a demeaning if relaxing servitude and real if frightening independence, and that both sexes find themselves in when trapped between the demands of morality and the demands of the heart. The novel is romantic but not sentimental, and I'm a sucker for unhappy endings" (Lionel Shriver)
"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)
"Wharton's dazzling skills as a stylist, creator of character, ironical observer and unveiler of passionate, thwarted emotions have earned her a devoted following" (Hermione Lee Sunday Times)
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A Norton Critical Edition. The editor, Candace Waid is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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The Age of Innocence
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The Age of Innocence
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Age of Innocence
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Introduction By R.W.B. Lewis
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NY. 1968. Charles Scribner's Sons / Hudson River Editions, 1976
ISBN 10: 0684146592
ISBN 13: 9780684146591
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Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. blue full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. shadow from old sticker on front, bit of suntanning, small edge tear on front (half inch), not price clipped(no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 2nd printing (#2 in # line) of this high quality book club edition (real cloth ~indent rear cover bottom near spine). xiv+361p. "Hudson River Editions are a series of reprints of outstanding standard titles from our backlist. They include classic works of fiction, reference, biography, history, religion and philosophy, literary criticism, and natural and social sciences, as well as books for young readers. Each volume is bound in sturdy cloth, with complete reinforcement and foil stamping ~ a durable binding for longlasting works." ~ EDITH WHARTON is much and vaguely associated with "old New York." But it was, in fact, only in the wake of the First World War that the New York society she had been born into and in which she had passed her adolescence and early married years became, in her view, old New York. Tbe Age of Innocence (finished in 1920) is her reminiscent and shrewdly ambivalent survey of her own old New York, and it is a novel in which perspective~the long gaze backward across the ruins of time~is everything. It is certainly one of the very best of her many novels (it is one of the few really first~class works of fiction to win the Pulitzer Prize, as it did in 1921). Seller Inventory # 2192602
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Age of Innocence
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Condition: Very Good+. Other than a name on the end page, this is a tight and unmarked copy-" Newland Archer comes to question the values of high society in Victorian New York Review: Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when the upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history."-Wear and tear on edges of DJ. Seller Inventory # 17812
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