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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

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The Age of Innocence
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Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
ISBN/ASIN: 1598183680
Number of pages: 253

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Edith Wharton's most famous novel is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.

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