The
Age of Innocence Edith
Wharton; Edited by Candace Waid, University of California,
Santa Barbara
ISBN
0-393-96794-8
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paper
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464 pages/19
illustrations
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Dec. 2002
The text of Wharton’s
richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel of desire
and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated
by a prominent Wharton scholar.
"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.
