The age of innocence: 52 (Maxtor Classics) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8490019525 ISBN 13: 9788490019528

Publisher: Editorial Maxtor, 2016

Synopsis

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York... The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the so-called Gilded Age. The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never develops into an outright condemnation of the institution. The title is an ironic comment on the polished outward manners of New York society when compared to its inward machinations.

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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: Editorial Maxtor
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8490019525
• ISBN 13: 9788490019528
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352