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The Age of Innocence

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02 May 2019
384 pages
9781509890033
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

Reviews

A great city's greatest novelist . . . Wharton's late masterpiece stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from culture and in desperate need of a European sensibilityRobert McCrum, Guardian
It’s a deliciously hard-edged satire of manners and customs . . . Wharton was not only ferociously witty and morally committed, she was also a great storytellerVincent Canby, New York Times
The Age of Innocence has as much in common with that popular Oprah-ish romance-rooted literary fashion as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet doesPatrick T. Reardon
Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs Wharton and her tradition?E. M. Forster