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    A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
    A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
    A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
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    A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

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    A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2015
    ISBN9781535822435
    A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

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      A Study Guide for Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence - Gale

      Novels for Students, Volume 37

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      The Age of Innocence (Film)

      Edith Wharton

      1993

      INTRODUCTION

      Critics and audiences were surprised in 1993 to find that Martin Scorsese, the director best known for such gritty, contemporary urban dramas as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Good-fellas, had chosen to direct a film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 tragicomedy of manners, The Age of Innocence. Wharton's novel deals with repressed feelings among society's upper ranks in New York in the 1870s, while Scorsese's most common themes involved machismo and violence—for instance, 1991's Cape Fear, featuring frequent Scorsese collaborator Robert De Niro as a psychotic murderer and rapist. The resulting film ended up on many critics' ten-best lists at the end of the year, and it was nominated for

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