The Age of Innocenceis author Edith Wharton's 12th novel. It won the1921 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. The Age of Innocencecenters on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for her earlier novel, The House of Mirth, which was more brutal and critical. The novel is noted for Wharton's attention to detail and its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East CoastAmerican upper classlived,and the social tragedy of its plot. Wharton was 58 years old at publication; she had lived in that world and had seen it change dramatically by the end ofWorld War I. An Author's Republic audio production.
Begynd din 14 dages gratis prøveperiode
- Fuld adgang til hundredtusindvis af lydbøger og e-bøger i vores bibliotek
- Opret op til 4 profiler – inkl. børneprofiler
- Læs og lyt offline
- Abonnementer fra 99 kr. pr. måned

The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocenceis author Edith Wharton's 12th novel. It won the1921 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. The Age of Innocencecenters on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for her earlier novel, The House of Mirth, which was more brutal and critical. The novel is noted for Wharton's attention to detail and its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East CoastAmerican upper classlived,and the social tragedy of its plot. Wharton was 58 years old at publication; she had lived in that world and had seen it change dramatically by the end ofWorld War I. An Author's Republic audio production.
Relaterede kategorier
Love & Passion Through The Ages (Historical Novels Boxed-Set) : 70 Novels in One Edition: Love Through the Ages – From Ancient Egypt to the Roaring 30s
Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry James, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Guy De Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Edith Wharton, Maria Edgeworth, Henry Fielding, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, Mary Wollstonecraft, Louis Hémon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Grace Livingston Hill, Gilbert Parker, Fanny Fern, Georg Ebers, Fanny Burney, Mary Hays, Robert Williams Buchanan, Mary Angela Dickens, Madame La Fayette, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. K. Broster, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Leo Tolstoy, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Lady Sydney Morgan, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Olifant, María Ruiz de Burton, Lady Charlotte Bury, Philip Meadows Taylor
bookThe Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume : Including 100+ Biographies & Memoirs of the Most Influential Women in History
Henrik Ibsen, Charlotte Brontë, Marietta Holley, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, John Stuart Mill, Zona Gale, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Rebecca Harding Davis, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Johnston, Grant Allen, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Sojourner Truth, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Martineau, Fanny Burney, Mary Ware Dennett, Julia Ward Howe, Ada Cambridge, H.G. Wells, Sarah H. Bradford, D. H. Lawrence, Nikolai Leskov, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Margaret Deland, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Margaret Mitchell, Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
book7 short stories that ENTP will love
Marcus Aurelius, Edith Wharton, Saki (H.H. Munro), Virginia Woolf, G.K. Chesterton, John Buchan, August Nemo
bookLas costumbres del país : Una novela histórica y romántica
Edith Wharton
bookEthan Frome
Edith Wharton
bookViejo Nueva York
Edith Wharton
bookEstío : Una novela histórica y romántica
Edith Wharton
bookLa casa de la alegría : Una novela histórica y romántica
Edith Wharton
bookLas bucaneras : Sueños americanos, reglas británicas: La fuerza de mujeres rebeldes y el poder de la amistad
Edith Wharton
bookThe Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton
audiobookbookThe Complete Works of Edith Wharton : Timeless Tales of Society, Love & Transformation
Edith Wharton, Zenith Horizon Publishing
bookThe Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Tale of Love, Duty, and Social Conventions
Edith Wharton, Zenith Horizon Publishing
book
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
audiobookThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
audiobookbookTom Sawyer, Detective
Mark Twain
audiobookbookFrankenstein :
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
audiobookThe Poison Belt
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
bookThe Wood Beyond the World
William William Morris
bookThe Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
bookEight Cousins
Louisa May Alcott
bookAdventures of Gerard
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
bookThe Red Seal
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
audiobookbookHeart of the World
Henry Rider Haggard
audiobookbookThe Adventures of Paddy the Beaver
Thornton W. Burgess
audiobookbook
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
audiobookbookPersuasion
Jane Austen
audiobookbookPride and Prejudice (Premium)
Jane Austen
audiobookEmma
Jane Austen
audiobookbookSense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
audiobookNorthanger Abbey
Jane Austen
audiobookJane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
audiobookbookPride and Prejudice - With Songs from Regency England (Unabridged)
Jane Austen
audiobookPride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
audiobookbookThe Shape of Water : The First Thrilling Mystery in the Darkly Funny Sicilian Crime Series
Andrea Camilleri
audiobookPride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
audiobookMansfield Park
Jane Austen
audiobookbook