...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... the clearer un- derstanding of English-speaking audiences. This seemed as natural to Newland Archer as all the other conventions on which his life wa... ...nd excused a certain number of failings. Unkind people said that, like her Imperial namesake, she had won her way to success by strength of will and h... ...with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phe- nomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosophi- call... ...beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who came of an old English county family allied with the Pitts and Foxes; the Lannings, who had interm... ... deal 44 The Age of Innocence more reasonant in a young woman with such a history. The dinner was a somewhat formidable business. Dining with the van... ...ork wedding a rite 125 Edith Wharton that seemed to belong to the dawn of history. Everything was equally easy—or equally painful, as one chose to pu... ... now made him an object of engrossing interest, and Mrs. Mingott issued an imperial sum- mons to him to come and compare diets as soon as his tem- per...

...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...