The Age of Innocence
$35.56
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
23 April 2019
Summary
Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. It’s this vanished world that inspired the lavish costume drama The Gilded Age, written by Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509890033 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509890033 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton, Rachel Cusk |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 23 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 100mm x 157mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
A great city’s greatest novelist … Wharton’s late masterpiece stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture and in desperate need of a European sensibility
A great city’s greatest novelist … Wharton’s late masterpiece stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture and in desperate need of a European sensibility – Robert McCrum * Guardian *
It’s a deliciously hard-edged satire of manners and customs … Wharton was not only ferociously witty and morally committed, she was also a great storyteller – Vincent Canby * New York Times *
The Age of Innocence has as much in common with that popular Oprah-ish romance-rooted literary fashion as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet does – Patrick T. Reardon
Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs Wharton and her tradition? – E. M. Forster
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite ‘Teddy’ Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.
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