“…"With The Age of Innocence, published in 1920,
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has appeared on almost every "Best American Novels" list, has been adapted to film, television, and theatre multiple times, has inspired contemporary rewritings, and is regularly cited as a favorite text by present-
day authors including Beth Nguyen, whose essay on reading The Age of Innocence as the teenage daughter of refugees appears in this volume. …”
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