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The Age of Innocence
Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author), Toibin, Colm (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0684842378     ISBN-13: 9780684842370
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 1998
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Annotation: The winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, "The Age of Innocence" is at once an elegant portrait of New York's elite in the 1870s and a devastatingly ironic commentary on their attitudes and customs.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 92042446
Lexile Measure: 1170
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.38" W x 7.98" (0.71 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 10826
Reading Level: 8.8   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 19.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York--now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm T ib n for the novel's centennial.

With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones, and society people who dreaded scandal more than disease. This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence, turning Archer's world upside down.

This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order.

Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist--the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921--as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Born into one of New York's elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.