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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

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The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's 12th 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 it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and making Wharton the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s' New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for her earlier novel, The House of Mirth, which was more brutal and critical. Plot summary Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic and beautiful thirty-year-old cousin. Ellen has returned to New York from Europe after scandalously separating herself (per rumor) from a bad marriage to a Polish count. At first, Ellen's arrival and its potential taint on the reputation of his bride-to-be's family disturbs him, but he becomes intrigued by the worldly Ellen, who flouts New York society's fastidious rules. As Newland's admiration for the countess grows, so does his doubt about marrying May, a perfect product of Old New York society; his match with May no longer seems the ideal fate he had imagined. [mehr]

Stichwörter: The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

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Rittik Chandra The Age of Innocence

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"The Age of Innocence" is a humorous novel by Rittik Chandra that gently satirizes first love. It is not only a skillful analysis of adolescent love, it is, with all its side-splitting mirth, a tragedy. No mature person who reads this novel will ever seriously regret his lost youth or wish he were young again. It is a humorous and touching story of adolescence. It has a touch of immortality that most popular works lack. Fundamentally it is true. [mehr]

Stichwörter: The Age of Innocence, romance, love, romantic, novel, innocence

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (Unabriged)

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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for her earlier novel, The House of Mirth, which was more brutal and critical. The novel is noted for Wharton's attention to detail regarding the way of life of the upper caste. The novel is lauded for its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East Coast American upper class lived,and this, combined with the social tragedy, earned Wharton a Pulitzer Prize—the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman. Edith Wharton was 58 years old at publication; she had lived in that world and had seen it change dramatically by the end of World War I.The title is an ironic comment on the polished outward manners of New York society when compared to its inward machinations. [mehr]

Stichwörter: the age of innocence, edith wharton, pulitzer prize winner, american literature, american history, historical fiction

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (Illustrated)

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The Age of Innocence: Illustrated by Edith Wharton was first published in 1920, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s. In 1920, The Age of Innocence was serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s' New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. The novel is lauded for its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East Coast American upper class lived, and this, combined with the social tragedy, earned Wharton a Pulitzer Prize — the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence, Literature, Fiction, Illustrated, Ellen Olenska, May Welland, Mrs. Augusta Welland, Mrs. Manson Mingott, Newland Archer, Pulitzer, Novel, Romance

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

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Edith Wharton The Age Of Innocence

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On A January Evening of The Early Seventies, Christine Nilsson Was Singing in faust At The Academy Of Music In new York. Though There Was Already Talk Of The Erection, In Remote Metropolitan Distances "Above The Forties," Of A New Opera House Which Should Compete In costliness And Splendour With Those Of The Great European Capitals, The World Of Fashion Was Still Content To Reassemble Every Winter In the Shabby Red and Gold Boxes Of The Sociable Old Academy. Conservatives Cherished it For Being small And Inconvenient, And Thus Keeping out The "New People" Whom New York Was Beginning to Dread And Yet Be Drawn To; And The Sentimental Clung To It For Its Historic Associations, And The Musical For Its Excellent Acoustics, Always So Problematic A Quality In Halls Built For The Hearing of Music. [mehr]

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