The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton‘s 12th novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.
In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic “old revolutionary stock” families that rule New York’s social life. Under the rules of this society, “being things” is better than “doing things” and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of everything else. In this Gilded Age, when America’s expansion and increased industrialism produce a group of newly wealthy robber barons and financiers, the patient, time-honored values of the old ruling class, and century, are giving way to the expediencies of the new. Caught at this cusp, a triangle of lovers, who must choose between the expectations of family and society, and the deepest yearnings of the heart.

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Wharton, Edith – Ethan Frome – Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub Un joven ingeniero retenido por su trabajo en una pequeña localidad de Massachussets observa a un hombre lisiado y envejecido que recoge en la oficina de correos una revista y un sobre con medicamentos. Es invierno y el ambiente (More) |
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Wharton, Edith – Ethan Frome – Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub Ethan Frome is a book published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. |
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Wharton, Edith – La solterona – Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub Edith Wharton firma una nouvelle magistral, que explota la que fuera una de sus obsesiones recurrentes: las opciones de la mujer de su tiempo y estatus en la tramoya social que la coarta. En 1850 la alta burguesía neoyorquina (More) |
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Wharton, Edith – La edad de la inocencia – Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub Galardonada en 1921 con el Premio Pulitzer. La acción de la novela transcurre en la alta sociedad neoyorquina de la década de 1870. |
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Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence – Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s 12th novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 (More) |





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