The Age of Innocence

Oxford World's Classics

Cover Art for 9780192806628, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780192806628
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 9 February, 2006
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history.

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