The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Credits: Edith Wharton (author)

Summary

The Age of Innocence is a novel by American author Edith Wharton, published on 25 October 1920. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'". The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded Age" New York City. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

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Chapters (34)

  1. 1. Chapter 1
  2. 2. Chapter 2
  3. 3. Chapter 3
  4. 4. Chapter 4
  5. 5. Chapter 5
  6. 6. Chapter 6
  7. 7. Chapter 7
  8. 8. Chapter 8
  9. 9. Chapter 9
  10. 10. Chapter 10
  11. 11. Chapter 11
  12. 12. Chapter 12
  13. 13. Chapter 13
  14. 14. Chapter 14
  15. 15. Chapter 15
  16. 16. Chapter 16
  17. 17. Chapter 17
  18. 18. Chapter 18
  19. 19. Chapter 19
  20. 20. Chapter 20
  21. 21. Chapter 21
  22. 22. Chapter 22
  23. 23. Chapter 23
  24. 24. Chapter 24
  25. 25. Chapter 25
  26. 26. Chapter 26
  27. 27. Chapter 27
  28. 28. Chapter 28
  29. 29. Chapter 29
  30. 30. Chapter 30
  31. 31. Chapter 31
  32. 32. Chapter 32
  33. 33. Chapter 33
  34. 34. Chapter 34

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