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The age of innocence / Edith Wharton ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Orgel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Upper class--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Upper class.
- Marriage--Fiction.
- Marriage.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 1870's. 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. - ;'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.'. Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War,
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edith Wharton; THE AGE OF INNOCENCE; Explanatory Notes;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxi]-xxii).
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1921
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-198983-5
- 0-19-150581-1
- 1-280-75271-8
- 0-19-151754-2
- 1-4294-2115-0
- OCLC:
- 476257325
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