The Age of Innocence (1920)
0.1482Canon Score · ranked #153 all time
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About the book
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 world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but he also recognizes i
Why it ranks #153
Every list on which The Age of Innocence appears, with its position as published.
| List | Authority | Position |
|---|---|---|
| OCLC/WorldCat Top 500 Novels (2019) | Editorial list | #113 / 500 |
| Guardian 1000 Novels (2009) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| 1001 Books You Must Read (union) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| Bloom, The Western Canon (1994) | Editorial list | Selected |