The Age of Innocencein a sentence
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Wharton intended The Age of Innocence as an ironic title. The novel contrasts polished manners to behind-the-scenes machinations.
The Age of Innocence = Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize winning novel that sympathetically criticizes New York's upper class of the 1870s
- When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as it were a survival from the age of innocence which he had never wholly outgrown.† (source)
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.† (source)
- And if our young men appear disinterested," the Doctor's wiser sister went on, "it is because they marry, as a general thing, so young; before twenty-five, at the age of innocence and sincerity, before the age of calculation.† (source)