Title The age of innocence / Edith Wharton ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Orgel

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 265 pages) Series Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Contents Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edith Wharton; THE AGE OF INNOCENCE; Explanatory Notes Summary Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until he meets Ellen Olenska, whose arrival threatens his impending marriage as well as his comfortable future. - ;'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.'. Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxii) Notes Print version record Subject Upper class -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction Marriage -- Fiction Manners and customs Marriage Upper class SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Fiction Form Electronic book Author Orgel, Stephen ISBN 9780191517549 0191517542 9780192806628 0192806629

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