The age of innocence
By Edith Wharton, Laura Dluzynski Quinn (Editor), Cynthia Wolff (Contributor)




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When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he beContinue
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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)
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«Emigrate! As if a gentleman could abandon his own country! One could no more do that than one could roll up one's sleeves and go down into the muck. A gentleman simply stayed at home and abstained.»
La prima cosa che ho pensato di Newland Archer, tutto compiaciuto per essersi trovato la moglie per ... (continue)
Claire N. said on Feb 25, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | 2 feedbacks
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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.
Paola said on Mar 5, 2008 | 1 feedback
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Mai, dico mai, mi era capitato di odiare così il protagonista di un romanzo: Newland Archer rappresenta quanto di più detestabile si possa trovare in un uomo. E' arrogante, supponente, e nonostante si erga a paladino dell'indipendenza delle donne contro la chiusura e lo snobbismo dell'altà società n ... (continue)
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- English Books
- Paperback 330 Pages
- ISBN-10: 014018970X
- ISBN-13: 9780140189704
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Pub date: Mar 01, 1996
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 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
- 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)