| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 265 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxii). |
| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edith Wharton; THE AGE OF INNOCENCE; Explanatory Notes. |
| Summary |
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until he meets Ellen Olenska, whose arrival threatens his impending marriage as well as his comfortable future. - ;'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.'. Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Upper class -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Upper class. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Marriage -- Fiction.
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Marriage. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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National Book Committee. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Marriage. |
| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Orgel, Stephen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Age of innocence. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0192806629 (DLC) 2006296308 (OCoLC)62307266 |
| ISBN |
9780191517549 (electronic book) |
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0191517542 (electronic book) |
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9780192806628 (paperback) |
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0192806629 (paperback) |
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