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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

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Author Biography

Name: Edith Wharton
Birth Date: January 24, c. 1861
Death Date: August 11, 1937
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author

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Biography of Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she k...
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Biography of Edith Wharton
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While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depression, a counterva...
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Biography of Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton
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Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that before her death in 1937, her novels and short stories...
 


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The Age of Innocence Summary
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Edith Wharton was born January 24, 1862, into a family known as one of the pillars of New York society. Her parents, George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, descended from prosperous English...
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The Age of Innocence Information
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The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story occurs among New York City's upper class in the 1870s, before electricity, telephone, and automobiles; when there was a small cluster of old,...


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Study: More kids exposed to online porn
2/5/2007: 588 words, approx. 2 pages
More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say.Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of...
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Scorsese finally wins Academy Award
2/26/2007: 481 words, approx. 2 pages
It took 26 years, six directing nominations and two screenplay nominations, but Martin Scorsese finally has his Oscar.Righting one of Hollywood's biggest oversights, the Academy Awards bestowed Martin Scorsese with a best-directing Oscar on Sunday night for "The Departed."Scorsese was received with a rousing standing...
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Rising number of kids exposed to online porn, study says
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More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say.Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in the past year. Of those,...
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Study: Rising number of kids exposed to online porn, and most say it turns them off
2/5/2007: 557 words, approx. 2 pages
More children and teens are being exposed to online pornography, mostly by accidentally viewing sexually explicit Web sites while surfing the Internet, researchers say.Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in the past year. Of those,...
 


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The Age of Innocence
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Analyzes Edith Wharton's novel, The Age of Innocence. Describes how Wharton presents characters who are bound by a social code which is repressive and pervasive in its hold over the inhabitants of New York. Through focused analysis of characterisation, imagery, style and tone, examines Wharton's presentation of society and the impact it has on the lives of the characters.
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Culture Prevails
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Explores the battle between society and the individual in Edith Wharton's novel, The Age of Innocence. Details how Wharton ridicules the hypocrisy of New York high society. Describes how character Newland Archer demonstrates the effects of this fraudulent culture on an individual level.
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Values in Age of Innocence
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Describes how The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's masterpiece, provides a portrait of 1870s New York from both the outside in and the inside out. Describes how the main character evolves and adjusts to the tradition and the values of his society.
 


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