The Age of Innocence (translation Classic)
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About This Novel
"The Age of Innocence" is the representative work of the famous American writer Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The main plot of the book takes place in the upper class society of New York in the late 1870s and early 1880s. That was where Wharton spent her childhood and youth, where she grew up, entered society, became engaged and disengaged, and finally married Edward Wharton of Boston, where she spent her first years of marriage. Forty years later, as a novelist, she looks back at the society that raised her and restrained her. Her feelings are complex, with both cordial attachment and sober criticism. The writer compared the upper class society in New York at that time to a small pyramid. It was sharp and slippery, making it difficult to gain a foothold on it. At the top of the tower, there are only two or three families with real aristocratic blood: the Dagonet family in Washington Square is an authentic county family; Mr. Van der Luyden is the direct grandson of the first Dutch governor, and his family has married several nobles in France and England; and the Laning family, who has married the Count de Grasse. They are the highest class of the upper class, but they are obviously in a declining stage.
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