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The Age of Innocence (facsimile dust jacket for the first edition book: NO BOOK) Loose Leaf – January 1, 2008
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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.
Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
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By marknanj on March 17, 2019

While little goes on in Archer's life, we are left to wonder about his true love Madame Olenska. Wharton leaves it to the reader to decide what they think about Olenska. She is not unattainable as Daisy Buchanan is in The Great Gatsby; she shares feelings for him and is eager to separate from her husband. Still, her relationship with Archer never comes to fruition, even after Archer's wife passes away. Her world is too rich and Archer, in his narrowness, can never wrap his head around it.
There are also a host of interesting characters that surround them, from the first Mrs. Manson Mingott to the conniving Beaufort, and , however limited their roles, they lend a great deal of insight to the "age of innocence," which serves as the setting. It is an age of hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness, which is quickly superseded by the generation of Archer's son Dallas, who dispels all the mystique behind Archer's lack of action. Dallas represents the dream which Archer could not attain. By the end of the novel, it is too late for him and his only hope is for his son to live this dream for him.
The novel is full of rich detail and is well worth reading, even though the plot is at times rather slow. Without doubt, it belongs in any list of the greatest novels of the 20th century!
"On a January night of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson become singing in Faust on the Academy of Music in New York. Though there has been already communicate of the erection, in faraway metropolitan distances "above the 1940's,"of a brand new Opera House which ought to compete in costliness and splendour with those of the excellent European capitals, the work of favor changed into nevertheless content material to reassemble each wintry weather in the shabby crimson and gold bins of the sociable old Academy."
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"On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in the Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy."
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There is no indication in the description, whatsoever that it may be some re-worked version of the original.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2019
There is no indication in the description, whatsoever that it may be some re-worked version of the original.



The 'innocence' of the title, similarly, has its underbelly exposed in some finely ironic masterstrokes, where 'human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile'. Young women like May Welland are 'carefully trained NOT to possess freedom of judgment' and, like Mrs Van de Luyden, 'are preserved in the atmosphere of a perfectly irreproachable existence, as bodies caught in glaciers keep for years a rosy life-in-death.' Though Wharton keeps her finely-ground opera-glasses trained on the circle of ladies who lived 'in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies', it is in the minutely-observed details of the Archer / Olenska affair that the novel sparkles with brilliant narrative energy. The carefully controlled distances and sudden impulses of intimacy between them belong in a class of their own, not least in the moment of exquisite self-restraint where Newland Archer fails, but only just, to make it into the 'new land' of that encounter in the pagoda with his beloved. His land of visions, with its 'tragic and moving possibilities', contrasts with the cold-blooded complacency and ugly condescension of New York 'Society' and the 'elaborate futility' of his life. That polarity pervades his evolution as a character and makes the ending, when you come to it, both powerful and utterly convincing. Remember to draw down the shutters when you finish. Those draughts can kill.



In this novel, which was first published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, Edith Wharton deftly paints a convincing portrait of upper-class New York society of the 1870s with its rigid code of conduct and its many hypocrisies, and the narrative is littered with Ms Wharton's perceptive observations of the society in which she grew up. Her characters are believable creations whose personalities develop through the course of the story and although, at the outset of the novel we might find ourselves sympathizing with May in her innocence, we soon begin to see that she is not as innocent or guileless as she initially seems and that when she needs to be she can be designing and manipulative - whilst conversely, we see the apparently less moralistic Ellen Olenska behaving in more admirable manner than her detractors might suppose she would - but I cannot explain further without revealing spoilers. All in all, I found this a beautifully written and very engaging read and, like the author's ' The House of Mirth ', is one that I would be happy to revisit in the future.
5 Stars.