A NOTE ON EDITH WHARTON
For a full list of Edith Wharton’s books and for reference to several important discussions of her work, see the chapter on her in either Authors of the Day or American Nights Entertainment.
The Age of Innocence is a story of New York society in the ’Seventies. It was published in 1920, receiving the Pulitzer Prize, awarded by Columbia University, as the best American novel of its year (over Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street). The four novelettes called Old New York were published in 1924 (separate volumes, or set) and are:
| False Dawn (The ’Forties) |
| The Old Maid (The ’Fifties) |
| The Spark (The ’Sixties) |
| New Year’s Day (The ’Seventies) |