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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee agreed to award the prize to Sinclair Lewis, the judges rejected his Main Street on political grounds and "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'", the irony being that the committee had awarded The Age of Innocence the prize on grounds that negated Wharton's own blatant and subtle ironies, which constitute and make the book so worthy of attention. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the Gilded Age. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author with publishers clamoring for her work. (from wikipedia.org)

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The Age of Innocence - wikipedia
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London.
The Age of Innocence (1993 film)
This is a 1993 American film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name. Directed by Martin Scorsese, it stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.

e-Books
The Age of Innocence
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton. Read this book online: HTML. Download This eBook. EPUB. Kindle. Plain Text.
The Age of Innocence
By Edith Wharton, 1862-1937. Publisher: New York [etc.] : D. Appleton and Company. Book Contributor: Boston Public Library.
The Age of Innocence
By Edith Wharton, 1862-1937. Publisher: [New York] Grosset & Dunlap. Digitizing Sponsor: MSN. Book Contributor: Robarts - University of Toronto.
The Age of Innocence
By Edith Wharton, 1862-1937. Publisher: New York [etc.] D. Appleton and Company. Book Contributor: University of Michigan.

Audio Books
The Age of Innocence, Read by Brenda Dayne
LibriVox recording of The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton. Read by Brenda Dayne. Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text.
The Age of Innocence, Read by Elizabeth Klett
LibriVox recording of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text.