The Age of Innocence
Recommended by Anne Thériault, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #17 in 1920S, Ranked #18 in New York — see more rankings.
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s. less
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- #87 in Adultery
- #88 in American
- #58 in American Literature
- #22 in Infidelity
- #23 in New York City
- #85 in Project Gutenberg
- #35 in Pulitzer Prize
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