Name: The Age of Innocence von Edith Wharton
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The Age of Innocence Zusammenfassung

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

Contexts constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the New York Four Hundred, elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Wharton's manuscript outlines, letters, and related writings.

Criticism collects eleven American and British contemporary reviews and nine major essays on The Age of Innocence, including a groundbreaking piece on the two film adaptations of the novel.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Über Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones on January 24, 1862, to a wealthy New York City family. Best known for her novels, Wharton's illustrious literary career also included poetry, short stories, design books, and travelogues. She gained widespread recognition with the 1905 publication of The House of Mirth, a darkly comic portrait of New York aristocracy. In 1921, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence (1920), becoming the first woman to claim it. Wharton moved to France in 1913, where she remained until her death. In addition to her many literary accolades, Wharton was awarded a French Legion of Honor medal for her humanitarian efforts during World War I. Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937. Candance Waid is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches American literature with a focus on race and regional cultures. She is the author of Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing and is the editor of Wharton's novels, short stories, and autobiography. She previously taught at Yale University and at the Sorbonne.

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Sku

GOR003995645

ISBN 13

9780393967944

ISBN 10

0393967948

Titel

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

Autor

Edith Wharton

Serien

Norton Critical Editions

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

WW Norton & Co

Datum

20030207

Anzahl der Seiten

544

Preise

Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1921

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