The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company 1920
ISBN/ASIN: 1598183680
Number of pages: 253
Description:
Edith Wharton's most famous novel is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
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