The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159308143X ISBN 13: 9781593081430

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

Synopsis

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Review

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.

Book Description

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 159308143X
• ISBN 13: 9781593081430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336