- Fiction, Divorced women, Upper class, Remarried people
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist.
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Cool, classical in form, prestige and meticulous.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Edith Wharton
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 386
- Publisher
- Applause Books, Bibliotech Press, McLeod & Allen
- Editions
- 94
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781983478642
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Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer and designer. *The Age of Innocence* (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. She spoke fluent French as well as several other languages and many of her books were published in both French and English. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton
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