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Publisher
Cengage Learning, Inc
Edition date
3 Apr 2000
ISBN-13
9780395980798

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Complementing the complete text of Wharton's landmark novel, this extensive volume also includes a wealth of contextual material. "Background Readings" explores the culture of 1870s New York, as depicted in the novel, as well as views on marriage and divorce at that time. In "Other Writings by Edith Wharton," the author discusses fiction writing, old New York, women, and her winning of the Pulitzer Prize. The "Critical Readings" section features essays on the novel from a wide variety of perspectives.

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  • Fiction
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  • Upper class
  • Married people
  • Separated people
  • Social life and customs
  • Marriage
  • Separated women
  • Upper classes
  • Social norms
  • New York (N.Y.)
  • Nobility

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Edith Wharton

American writer and designer (1862–1937)

Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was…

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Full title
The Age of Innocence
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Pages
462 (Open Library)
ISBN
9780395980798