Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

Novel exploring social constraints and marriage in upper-class New York society

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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, recognized for her incisive portraits of New York's Gilded Age aristocracy. Her novels dissect the constraints of social convention with psychological depth and wit.

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