Fiction · 1920
The Age of Innocence
New York in the 1870s: Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland when her cousin, the Countess Olenska, returns from a disastrous European marriage, and everything he has taken for granted about his world comes into question. Edith Wharton published the novel in 1920; it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year, the first awarded to a woman.
Wharton wrote it in France just after the war, looking back fifty years at the New York she was born into, and she treated that world as an archaeologist treats a site: the dinner tables, the opera boxes, the calling cards, the exact order in which a family may be told anything. Its cruelty is that it never has to raise its voice.
The two books are given complete, to the Paris chapter that closes them.
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1862–1937 · Modern
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