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The Age of Innocence

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02 May 2019
384 pages
9781529015034
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

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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 sensibility
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 storyteller
The Age of Innocence has as much in common with that popular Oprah-ish romance-rooted literary fashion as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet does
Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs Wharton and her tradition?