1. The Age of Innocence: How a US classic defined its era - BBC
23 sep 2020 · Cameron Laux looks at how The Age of Innocence – published 100 years ago – marked a pivotal moment in US history. A funny story.
In the first of BBC Culture’s series The American Century, Cameron Laux looks at how The Age of Innocence marked a pivotal moment in US history.

2. What Do We Do with The Age of Innocence in 2020? - Literary Hub
3 mrt 2020 · In this, the novel draws from Wharton's own life story, in which her unhappy marriage to Edward “Teddy” Wharton took the form of a sort of ...
On a fateful evening near the end of the novel, May Archer, née Welland, delivers a devastating piece of news to her husband, Newland. She then turns and walks out of his study, “her torn and muddy…

3. The Age of Innocence | Introduction & Summary | Britannica
23 sep 2024 · The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal.
An introduction to and summary of the novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.

4. “The Age of Innocence” at a Moment of Increased Appetite for Eating the ...
26 dec 2020 · And status made her story more than believable—it made the story real. When Wharton showed her dear friend and lover Walter Berry the book, he ...
Edith Wharton’s novel, now a hundred, made its author wealthier than ever by offering up her own people for derision and envy.

5. Writing The Age of Innocence - The Mount | Edith Wharton's Home
The Age of Innocence began as notes under the title “Old New York.” The story, set in the 1870s, follows Newland Archer, whose scripted future with his fiancée, ...
The Mount is the home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, MA - the Berkshires. Historic Tours, Weddings, Music, Events, Outdoor Sculpture, Cafe. Close to Tanglewood, Shakespeare & Co., Red Lion Inn

6. The Age of Innocence is a gang story as brutal as Goodfellas
22 sep 2020 · The Age of Innocence may be about reserve and decorum, but it's still intensely erotically charged and full of hard choices.
Some were surprised when Martin Scorsese filmed Edith Wharton’s novel, but its milieu is governed by codes of tribal loyalty as lethal as in any mob

7. 30 Years Later, The Age of Innocence Remains Scorsese's Most Subtle ...
8 sep 2023 · “In reality,” Wharton wrote, “they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but ...
Thirty years ago, Martin Scorsese upended viewers’ expectations with the premiere of a new addition to his canon: The Age of Innocence, adapted from Edith Wharton’s 1920 Pulitzer Prize-winnin…

8. The Age of Innocence: Summary & Analysis | Vaia
The Age of Innocence (1920) is a story that includes secret love, affairs, and navigating the aristocratic society of the Gilded Age in New York.
The Age of Innocence: ✓ Summary ✓ Literary Criticism ✓ Characters ✓ Analysis ✓ Theme ✓ Vaia Original