Edith Wharton's the Age of Innocence

by Harold Bloom (Editor)

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85 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 1998

About the author

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.

Reviews

[Stephanie Palmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this for work, after having read it in college many years ago. I enjoyed it more knowing the sad ending already, and being more mature and resigned to my own fate. I was also reminded of it by being part the way through Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence, which in some ways is a very similar novel, about the unthinking elite milieu of an important, decadent city, about a love affair doomed by social prescriptions against it and especially the weak-willed centre-of-consciousness male character who can't give up his social privileges for the sake of love.

[David Freudenburg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excerpts from a few classical literary articles over the past 3 generations. Helps to give some understanding to the background, importance, and message of the book.

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of Modern Libraries Best 100 books of the 20th Centruy. Published in 1920,the marvelous author Edith Wharton draws you into the lives of New Yorks upper crust as they live according to strict social customs.

[M]

Re-reading this for my film/lit discussion group. I tried adding the actual ed. I'm re-reading, but GR auto-associated it with the other ed. I read in the past. (More of a note to self, in case I wonder why I can't find this actual ed. on my bookshelf in the future.)