The Age of Innocence

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293 pages

English language

Published Dec. 23, 2004

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978-1-59308-143-0
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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'". The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded Age" New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she was already established as a major author in high demand by publishers.

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I had some expectations for this, given how much I remember liking "The House of Mirth." While I won't go so far as to say this was a miss, I felt a bit too distant from the upper crust situation to appreciate it fully. The romance of it rarely struck me and every character except Ellen Olenska felt too manipulative to root for. Although, I will say that refusing to see her again because she felt more real in his head was a huge mood...

I listened to the LibriVox recording by Brenda Dayne.

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