Feb 06, 2012 classic literature videobook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. 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. The age of innocence by edith wharton full audiobook p1. The age of innocence 1920 won the 1921 pulitzer prize for literature, making her the first.
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Many of whartons novels are characterised by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Aubyn, asks us to state that he will be greatly indebted to any of the. The touchstone by edith wharton free at loyal books. In such works as the house of mirth and the age of innocence she employed both humour and profound empathy to describe the lives of new yorks upperclass and the vanishing of their world in the early years of. Another one of her most famous books available on audio download is the house of mirth and it is considered her first great novel. The age of innocence by edith wharton in five minutes. A national historic landmark, today the mount is a cultural center that celebrates the intellectual, artistic and. Edith wharton has 954 books on goodreads with 867059 ratings. The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright june garden, came back to mary boyne with a sharp perception. Books by edith wharton edith wharton average rating 3. Edith wharton 18621937 was born in new york and is best known for her stories of life among the upperclass society into which she was born. In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic old revolutionary stock families that rule new yorks social life. The age of innocence, edith wharton s most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the first world war. In these three powerful stories, edith wharton transports the listener to the turn of the century where she depicts without turning to sensationalism the shocking topics of the time.
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