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Language: English
Published by Scribner, 1993
- Softcover
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- Title
- AGE OF INNOCENCE
- Author
- Wharton, Edith
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 002026478X
- ISBN 13
- 9780020264781
As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down. By the author of Ethan Frome. Reprint. Movie tie-in. 350,000 first printing.
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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.
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