Age of Innocence, The

American  

noun

1. a novel (1920) by Edith Wharton.

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Example Sentences

As referenced in the opening scene of “The Age of Innocence,” the opera in America’s Gilded Age was still a place to see and be seen.

From Seattle Times

With due respect to the director of The King of Comedy and The Age of Innocence, the question of whether or not Marvel movies are “cinema” doesn’t seem as important as how they’ve shifted the definition of what movies are.

From Slate

Written in 1901, long before Wharton achieved fame with her novel The Age Of Innocence, the drama tackles the topic of assisted suicide, but was abandoned during rehearsals in New York for unknown reasons.

From BBC

“Shopping” was the word he used and he knew what he was seeking: young, early teens, preferably blonde, blue-eyed and with pale, almost translucent skin; the epitome of the “age of innocence”, the title of one of his best-selling books.

From The Guardian

Wharton was a novelist and short story writer who authored The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth and other works.

From Seattle Times