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Wharton drew upon her insiders knowledge of the upper class new york aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the gilded age. In the last pagesthe scene is one of the best things of its kind that edith wharton didundine spraggs little boy is seen wandering alone. Edith whartons novella explores the milieu of americans living abroad in paris. Among her bestknown work is ethan frome 1911, which is considered her greatest tragic story, the house of mirth 1905, and the age of innocence 1920, for which she was awarded the pulitzer prize. Edith wharton 18621937 was born into a distinguished new york family and was educated privately in the united states and abroad. No 45 the age of innocence by edith wharton 1920 the story of a blighted new york marriage stands as a fierce indictment of a society estranged from. In such works as the house of mirth and the age of innocence she employed both humour and profound empathy to describe the lives of new yorks upperclass and the vanishing of their world in the. He was not so old, to be sure his glass gave him little more than the fiveandthirty years to which his wife. The cold, desolate landscape forms the backdrop to the intense, tragic tale of its eponymous hero.
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