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- Herausgeber: Maria Teresa Marinelli
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'". The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author, with publishers clamoring for her work. From Wikipedia
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List of contents
List of contents
Book 1 Chapter 1
Book 1 Chapter 2
Book 1 Chapter 3
Book 1 Chapter 4
Book 1 Chapter 5
Book 1 Chapter 6
Book 1 Chapter 7
Book 1 Chapter 8
Book 1 Chapter 9
Book 1 Chapter 10
Book 1 Chapter 11
Book 1 Chapter 12
Book 1 Chapter 13
Book 1 Chapter 14
Book 1 Chapter 15
Book 1 Chapter 16
Book 1 Chapter 17
Book 1 Chapter 18
Book 2 Chapter 19
Book 2 Chapter 20
Book 2 Chapter 21
Book 2 Chapter 22
Book 2 Chapter 23
Book 2 Chapter 24
Book 2 Chapter 25
Book 2 Chapter 26
Book 2 Chapter 27
Book 2 Chapter 28
Book 2 Chapter 29
Book 2 Chapter 30
Book 2 Chapter 31
Book 2 Chapter 32
Book 2 Chapter 33
Book 2 Chapter 34
Book 1 Chapter 5
The next evening old Mr. Sillerton Jackson came to dine with the Archers.
Mrs. Archer was a shy woman and shrank from society; but she liked to be well-informed as to its doings. Her old friend Mr. Sillerton Jackson applied to the investigation of his friends' affairs the patience of a collector and the science of a naturalist; and his sister, Miss Sophy Jackson, who lived with him, and was entertained by all the people who could not secure her much-sought-after brother, brought home bits of minor gossip that filled out usefully the gaps in his picture.
Therefore, whenever anything happened that Mrs. Archer wanted to know about, she asked Mr. Jackson to dine; and as she honoured few people with her invitations, and as she and her daughter Janey were an excellent audience, Mr. Jackson usually came himself instead of sending his sister. If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland's part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.
Mr. Jackson, if perfection had been attainable on earth, would also have asked that Mrs. Archer's food should be a little better. But then New York, as far back as the mind of man could travel, had been divided into the two great fundamental groups of the Mingotts and Mansons and all their clan, who cared about eating and clothes and money, and the Archer-Newland-van-der-Luyden tribe, who were devoted to travel, horticulture and the best fiction, and looked down on the grosser forms of pleasure.
You couldn't have everything, after all. If you dined with the Lovell Mingotts you got canvas-back and terrapin and vintage wines; at Adeline Archer's you could talk about Alpine scenery and "The Marble Faun"; and luckily the Archer Madeira had gone round the Cape. Therefore when a friendly summons came from Mrs. Archer, Mr. Jackson, who was a true eclectic, would usually say to his sister: "I've been a little gouty since my last dinner at the Lovell Mingotts’ it will do me good to diet at Adeline's."
