The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 362 |
| Year of Publication: | 1920 |
| Date Read: | 10/03/1996 |
| Notes: | A study of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. Newland Archer, though engaged to May Welland, a beautiful and proper fellow member of elite society, is attracted to Ellen Olenska, a former member of their circle who has been living in Europe but who has left her husband under mysterious circumstances and returned to her family’s New York milieu. COMMENTS — Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence. She also wrote Ethan Frome, a short novel that contains one of the oddest suicide attempts in literature. |
| My Rating: | 4 |