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The Age of Innocence, the old Academy

Author: Edith Wharton Year: 1920 Length: 341 characters Difficulty: medium Public domain

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Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy.

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Edith Wharton published The Age of Innocence in 1920 and won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1921, the first woman to take that award for fiction. She set the story in the New York of the 1870s, among the families she knew as a child. She wrote the book in France, where she had settled years earlier. Project Gutenberg carries the full novel.

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Edith Wharton published The Age of Innocence in 1920 and won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1921, the first woman to take that award for fiction. She set the story in the New York of the 1870s, among the families she knew as a child. She wrote the book in France, where she had settled years earlier. Project Gutenberg carries the full novel.

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