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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Orgel. --
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- ISBN: 0199540012 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780199540013 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxv, 265 p. --
- Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006
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| General Note: | 10-digit ISBN from Global Books in Print. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxi]-xxii). |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 9.95 |
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| Subject: | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction. Upper class > Fiction. Married people > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Love stories. Domestic fiction. |
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Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until he meets Ellen Olenska, whose arrival threatens his impending marriage as well as his comfortable future. - Oxford University Press
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 it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but he also recognizes its limitations. His engagement to the impeccable May Welland assures him of a safe and conventional future, until the arrival of May's cousin Ellen Olenska. Independent, free-thinking, scandalously separated from her husband, Ellen forces Archer to question the values and assumptions of his narrow world. As their love for each other grows, Archer has to decide where his ultimate loyalty lies.
Stephen Orgel's introduction and notes set the novel in the context of the period and discusses Wharton's skilfull weaving of characters and plot, her anthropological exactitude, and the novel's autobiographical overtones.
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