“Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name of America, and this is her best book. A consummate work of art. It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century and looks like a permanent addition to literature.”—William Lyon Phelps in the New York Times Book Review.
“A fine novel, beautifully written, ‘big’ in the best sense. A credit to American literature.”—Henry Seidel Canby in the New York Evening Post.
“Of this American generation Edith Wharton is unquestionably the novelist foremost in intellectual distinction.”—The Philadelphia North American.
“A work of surpassing art.”—The Philadelphia Public Ledger.
“Edith Wharton has proved herself again a superb novelist.”—The Chicago Tribune.
“‘The Age of Innocence’ is by all odds the great novel of the year.”—The Christian World.
“Mrs. Wharton has written a brilliant novel. Her picture of a place and period is extraordinarily fascinating.”—Heywood Broun in the New York Tribune.
“Mrs. Wharton has added another victory to her varied triumphs in the field of fiction.”—The Atlantic Monthly.
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