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"Contexts" constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Wharton's manuscript outlines, letters, and related writings.

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'I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that - categories like that - won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who... Read Full Overview

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Edith Wharton's masterpiece brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age. Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite May Welland, when he meets her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska,... Read Full Overview

"The Age of Innocence", written by Edith Wharton, is a masterful exploration of the complexities of love, society, and duty set against the backdrop of New York City's Gilded Age. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this novel provides a poignant critique of the rigid... Read Full Overview

The Age of Innocence tells the story of an upcoming society wedding, and the threat to the happy couple from the appearance of a cousin of the bride who is in an exotic and beautiful femme fatale, a cousin of the bride. The groom to be is Newland Archer a distinguished lawyer... Read Full Overview

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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a masterful exploration of love, societal expectations, and personal sacrifice set against the opulent backdrop of late 19th-century New York. This Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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The Age of Innocence , Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and... Read Full Overview

The Age of Innocence By Edith Wharton - A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterpiece of Love, Loss, and the Inescapable Grip of Society In The Age of Innocence , Edith Wharton delivers a deeply moving and meticulously crafted exploration of passion, duty, and the powerful forces of social... Read Full Overview

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) wrote carefully structured fiction that probed the psychological and social elements guiding the behavior of her characters. Her portrayals of upper-class New Yorkers were unrivaled. The Age of Innocence , for which Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize in... Read Full Overview

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and... Read Full Overview

La novela retrata de una manera implacable la hipocres a aristocr tica del siglo XIX, as como los pormenores de una infidelidad. Newland Archer se debate entre May Welland, la esposa perfecta pero predecible, y la condesa Ellen Olenska, que simboliza el riesgo y la aventura... Read Full Overview