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The Age of Innocence
Contributor(s): Wharton, Edith (Author), Orgel, Stephen (Editor)
ISBN: 0199540012     ISBN-13: 9780199540013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $8.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2008
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Romance - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2009291005
Lexile Measure: 1170
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.45 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 10826
Reading Level: 8.8   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 19.0
 
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Publisher Description:
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but he also recognizes its limitations. His engagement to the impeccable May Welland assures him of a safe and
conventional future, until the arrival of May's cousin Ellen Olenska. Independent, free-thinking, scandalously separated from her husband, Ellen forces Archer to question the values and assumptions of his narrow world. As their love for each other grows, Archer has to decide where his ultimate
loyalty lies.
Stephen Orgel's introduction and notes set the novel in the context of the period and discusses Wharton's skilfull weaving of characters and plot, her anthropological exactitude, and the novel's autobiographical overtones.

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