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Age of Innocence: The Original 1920 Unabridged And Complete Edition (Edith Wharton Classics) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "e;established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'"e;. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "e;Gilded Age"e; New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she was already established as a major author in high demand by publishers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Global Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781915932600
• Artikelnr.: 68948516

Autorenporträt

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married, and the couple travelled frequently to Europe. They settled in France, where Wharton stayed through divorce in 1913 and until her death. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War. She died in 1937.

Rezensionen

A great city's greatest novelist . . . Wharton's late masterpiece stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture and in desperate need of a European sensibility Robert McCrum Guardian