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Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer, conducts himself by the rules and stadards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, his attachment guarantees his place in this rigid world of the elite. HoweverContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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The Age of Innocence
(1921 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) 1870s New York was a world that Edith Wharton knew very well in her youth and she captures its elitist claustrophobic atmosphere brilliantly in this novel. Newland Archer is engaged to be married to May Welland, an ... (read full critics)
bookgroup published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010
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I read this first as a teenager. Makes more sense when you're a grown-up, and it's deliciously vicious and cruel under the "costume drama" façade. Loved the descriptions of the stifling NY society. Oh, by the way, it's one of the rare books which were transposed into a movie with perfect results.
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I read this for a Modern Lit course in College. I really really liked this book. It had a real twisted story and some sexual bits... which of course makes for an excellent read. Tie that in with some family frustrations and a little death and its fabulous. I think I will reread this one day.
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- English Books
- Mass Market Paperback 320 Pages
- ISBN-10: 000736864X
- ISBN-13: 9780007368648
- Publisher: HarperPress
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2010
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton London: D. Appleton and Co. Pp. 365. 8s. 6d. net. The Novelist who is faced with a simple problem of personal renunciation conceived as the theme of a tale has several anxious choices to make. But of these there ... (read full critics)