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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 1870's. 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,

Title The age of innocence / Edith Wharton
edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Orgel.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2006
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Edith Wharton
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
Explanatory Notes
Series Oxford world's classics
Extent 1 online resource (292 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712268605171
MARC RECORDS
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