AGE OF INNOCENCE

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• Puppets in a period

  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)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• 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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  A perfect hymn to lost chances, enhanced by ethical value.

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  "Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience!"

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  sepia officinalis said on Sep 1, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Can your heart beat fast for something that is permitted? (N.A.)

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  krys said on May 4, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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  Magnificent. Brilliantly captures how society's conventions interfere with individual desires, and the hypocrisy and irony that are a part of this.

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  sid_rw said on Dec 22, 2008 | Add your feedback

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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
• Paperback 384 Pages
• Edition: Mvi Tie in
• ISBN-10: 002026478X
• ISBN-13: 9780020264781
• Publisher: Scribner
• Pub date: Sep 02, 1993
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
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