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The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton

Description: ISBN 0140622055 / Author: Edith Wharton / Genre: Fiction / Countess Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York ... more

The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton ... society. She bears with her an independence and an awareness of life which stirs the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, engaged to be married to May Welland.

Newest Review: ... a cousin and childhood friend of Newland. She has been tentatively re-admitted into New York society although her ... more

... estrangement from her husband casts a dark shadow over her reputation. Newland finds himself attracted to her and thus begins an internal struggle that could ruin his social standing and change his life forever. WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT Wharton’s writing comes out of experience, sometimes a painful and bitter experience. She writes beautifully and with a real insight about the hypocrisy and double standards of the rich New Yorkers. She delves ever deeper into 'polite' society to expose the tensions and suppressed emotions that...more

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	Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence Audio CD, Talking Classics Last Update 29.11.2009 05:47	£ 3.99
	The Age of Innocence [DVD] Martin Scorsese does not sound like the logical choice to direct ... Last Update 29.11.2009 05:47	£ 9.50
	The End of the Age of Innocence: EdithWharton and the First World ... Pages: 224, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Robert Hale Ltd Last Update 29.11.2009 05:47	£ 6.35
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The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton: THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (1066 words)
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‘The Age of Innocence’ has been described as a feminist text, as satirical study of New York Society at the beginning of the 20th Century and a love story all of which would be to some degree accurate. It was critically acclaimed when published and won Edith Wharton the Pulitzer Prize. Although Edith Wharton had been a product of the genteel New York Society, which features in the book by the time of writing, she had become completely estranged from it. After a painful divorce late in life she rediscovered herself in Europe and lived an active to some unseemly life as a woman on independent means in 1920’s Paris. She had forsaken her country of birth and her ... Read the complete review