The age of innocence marks the pinnacle of edith whartons career as one of the finest american novelists of her era. The age of innocence, by edith wharton standard ebooks. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The age of innocence was edith whartons 12th novel and is located in familiar wharton territory. The age of innocence is a 1920 novel by american author edith wharton. This months free audiobook and ebook combination is the age of innocence by edith wharton. Download the ebook the age of innocence edith wharton in pdf or epub format and read it directly on your mobile phone, computer or any device. In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic old revolutionary stock families that rule new yorks social life. If you liked the age of innocence, try the innocents by francesca segal the magnificent ambersons by booth tarkington. The first edition of the novel was published in 1920, and was written by edith wharton. Selected by the modern library as one of the 100 best novels of all time newland archer saw little to envy in the marria. 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, a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal.
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 thus wharton the first woman to win the prize. On a january evening of the early seventies, christine nilsson was singing in faust at the academy of music in new york. 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. The age of innocence ebook por edith wharton 9780679642077. Age of innocence ebook por edith wharton 1230000308997. The age of innocence is author edith wharton s 12th novel. But the age of innocence has as much in common with that popular oprahish romancerooted literary fashion as shakespeares romeo and juliet does.
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Although this is a love story on many levels, the age of innocence, by edith wharton, is, also, a documentary of a culture in this case, the elite rich society of new york in 19th century america who buries its own dreams and deepest desires behind the greater need to be accepted and approved by ones own reference group. Librivox recording of the age of innocence, by edith wharton. The project gutenberg ebook of the age of innocence, by edith wharton this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. The age of innocence, edith wharton s most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the first world war.
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