The Age of Innocence What's Up With the Title? Edith Wharton took her title from this portrait of a cute little girl with chubby cheeks and bare toes in an oh- so- lovely woodland idyll.
This novel looks into how innocence can have the appearance of purity and goodness, but it has its own special kind of cruelty as well. Wharton's title refers to a period that's already old news to her readership: 1. New York. She's looking back fifty years. From the post- World War I perspective of Wharton and her readers, the 1. America was still relatively isolated from European political entanglements and when high society seemed impervious to change and maintained the traditions and customs it always had. Also, to a 2. 0th- century audience, the fashion of The Age of Innocence looked super dated. Wharton presents New York in the 1. Newland, at least in his head, keeps it pretty real. Ultimately, May triumphs when she prevents Newland and Ellen Olenska from running off together. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. Buy The Age of Innocence on Amazon.com FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders. About The Age of Innocence. One of Edith Wharton’s most famous novels—the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize—exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York. Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than. Though overswamped with authentic period decor (and dishware) in too many scenes, Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence is an adroit, easy-to-follow adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel. Set in the upper circles of New.
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