TY - GEN T1 - The age of innocence T2 - Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) A1 - Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 A2 - Orgel, Stephen LA - English PP - Oxford ; New York PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm76960743 AB - 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. OP - 265 CN - PS3545.H16 A7 2006eb SN - 9780191517549 SN - 0191517542 SN - 9780192806628 SN - 0192806629 KW - Upper class : New York (State) : New York : Fiction. KW - Marriage : Fiction. KW - New York (N.Y.) : Social life and customs : 19th century : Fiction. KW - Classes supérieures : New York (État) : New York : Romans, nouvelles, etc. KW - Mariage : Romans, nouvelles, etc. KW - FICTION. KW - Romance. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM. KW - Manners and customs KW - Marriage KW - Upper class KW - New York (State) : New York KW - 1800-1899 KW - Electronic books. KW - Fiction ER -