The Age of Innocence - Softcover

Wharton, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1508475571 ISBN 13: 9781508475576

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2020

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The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth 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.

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About the Author:

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, known for such classics as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. A member of the New York elite, Wharton drew on her experiences as part of society to critique its inner workings and the conflict between personal desires and societal norms. Wharton died in 1937, leaving behind a rich literary legacy.

Harold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than thirty books include The Best Poems of the English Language, The Art of Reading Poetry, and The Book of J. He is a MacArthur Prize Fellow, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, including the Academy s Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism, the International Prize of Catalonia, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico.

Review:

"It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century and ... a permanent addition to literature." -- --New York Times Book Review, October 17, 1920

"It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century and ... a permanent addition to literature." --New York Times Book Review, October 17, 1920

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1508475571
• ISBN 13: 9781508475576
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 162