Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

by Various, Harold Bloom (Editor/Introduction), Cushing Strout (Contributor)

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Cushing Strout, David Holbrook, Kathy Miller Hadley, John J. Murphy, Clar Virginia Eby, and and other scholars, discussing the themes and characters of the novel.

205 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 1998

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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.)