The Age Of Innocence -- September 30, 2023

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I've always said the problem with high school and college is one has to take subjects for which one may not be prepared; that is most evident in literature.

Years ago, when I was reading voraciously, 2004 to 2011, let's say, I went through a very short Edith Wharton period, and then lost interest.

But having just read Hermione Lee's biography of Edith Wharton, I am once again fascinated with Edith Wharton. So, those coming here to read about the Bakken will be upset, I suppose, for awhile, with my notes about this novelist.

I do believe I've read Wharton's A Backward Glance, but I do not remember the particulars. So, time to read The Age Of Innocence. From wiki:

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton.

It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review.

Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize.

Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'".

The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded Age" New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she was already established as a major author in high demand by publishers.

After WWI, Edith Wharton said she needed "a momentary escape."

So, time to order from Amazon.