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Newland Archer comes to question the values of high society in Victorian New York
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Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history.
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Introduction By R.W.B. Lewis
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NY. 1968. Charles Scribner's Sons / Hudson River Editions, 1976
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Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. blue full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. shadow from old sticker on front, bit of suntanning, small edge tear on front (half inch), not price clipped(no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 2nd printing (#2 in # line) of this high quality book club edition (real cloth ~indent rear cover bottom near spine). xiv+361p. "Hudson River Editions are a series of reprints of outstanding standard titles from our backlist. They include classic works of fiction, reference, biography, history, religion and philosophy, literary criticism, and natural and social sciences, as well as books for young readers. Each volume is bound in sturdy cloth, with complete reinforcement and foil stamping ~ a durable binding for longlasting works." ~ EDITH WHARTON is much and vaguely associated with "old New York." But it was, in fact, only in the wake of the First World War that the New York society she had been born into and in which she had passed her adolescence and early married years became, in her view, old New York. Tbe Age of Innocence (finished in 1920) is her reminiscent and shrewdly ambivalent survey of her own old New York, and it is a novel in which perspective~the long gaze backward across the ruins of time~is everything. It is certainly one of the very best of her many novels (it is one of the few really first~class works of fiction to win the Pulitzer Prize, as it did in 1921). Seller Inventory # 2192602
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