- Fiction, Single women, Social classes, Drama
Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece. But it is her very taste and moral sensibility that render her unfit for survival in this world.
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Edith Wharton
- First published
- 1905
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W., Barnes & Noble Press, General Books LLC
- Editions
- 694
- Language
- English, fin, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9781101083208
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“SELDEN paused in surprise.”
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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