A well-known novel Age of Innocence is known for its gripping love story, but another gripping feature about the novel is the cover. Looking at the 1920 first edition dust cover of the novel, it informs the reader that the novels author is Edith Wharton. Turning a few pages into the actual novel there is a page informing the readers of: the publisher (D.Appleton and company), publication date (1920) and the country the novel was first published in (United States). All this information gives the reader a little understanding of the novel before it was on the shelf, and also how it made it to the shelves of a variety of stores. This is simple but yet very effective original cover, it is illustrated with a young girl wearing a pink shoulder cover,
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The novel Age of Innocence explores a wide variety of themes and ideas, a main theme included is: personal freedom, person freedom is explored in a number of ways throughout the novel, many social codes were enforced in the time period of the novel, this limits Newland meaning he cannot follow his heart, Ellen also comes to the realisation that she cannot have an affair, they cannot love each other and still remain with their social integrity (cliffnotes.com). The author, Edith Wharton, persuades the reader to have new outlook on love and also aspects that come into being in a relationship you are entirely committed to. She also, not exactly influenced her reader but she gave them an insight into what life was like for upper-class new Yorkers in this time but also what her life has been like growing up in these …show more content…
I think the primary influence for this novel is the people that Wharton grew up around, like her upper-class family and friends. There could have been events that influenced this novel that weren’t major headline events, such as large social gathering for the upper class society, but that doesn’t mean that Wharton didn’t take ideas and themes from these events to add a sense of realism to the novel.
The first review of Age of Innocence was in The Guardian, December 17th 1920, the critics responded with kind words talking about the underlying themes throughout the novel. The author of the article talks highly of the plot and how the plot relates back to Wharton’s life overall primarily her life as she was writing the novel. Many reviews from when the novel first hit the shelves all talk about how beautifully written the book is, in 1921 Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for
The novel Age of Innocence explores a wide variety of themes and ideas, a main theme included is: personal freedom, person freedom is explored in a number of ways throughout the novel, many social codes were enforced in the time period of the novel, this limits Newland meaning he cannot follow his heart, Ellen also comes to the realisation that she cannot have an affair, they cannot love each other and still remain with their social integrity (cliffnotes.com). The author, Edith Wharton, persuades the reader to have new outlook on love and also aspects that come into being in a relationship you are entirely committed to. She also, not exactly influenced her reader but she gave them an insight into what life was like for upper-class new Yorkers in this time but also what her life has been like growing up in these …show more content…
I think the primary influence for this novel is the people that Wharton grew up around, like her upper-class family and friends. There could have been events that influenced this novel that weren’t major headline events, such as large social gathering for the upper class society, but that doesn’t mean that Wharton didn’t take ideas and themes from these events to add a sense of realism to the novel.
The first review of Age of Innocence was in The Guardian, December 17th 1920, the critics responded with kind words talking about the underlying themes throughout the novel. The author of the article talks highly of the plot and how the plot relates back to Wharton’s life overall primarily her life as she was writing the novel. Many reviews from when the novel first hit the shelves all talk about how beautifully written the book is, in 1921 Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for