【美国人物志】伊迪丝·华顿 (8/9)

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伊迪丝·华顿（Edith Wharton, 1862年1月24日－1937年8月11日），美国女作家。作品有《高尚的嗜好》、《纯真年代》、《四月里的阵雨》、《马恩河》、《战地英雄》等书。
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Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence."

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Most critics agree that most of Edith Wharton's writing after 1913 is not as good as before that time. It was as if she needed the difficulties of her marriage to write well. Much of her best work seems to have been written under the pressure of great personal crisis. After her marriage ended, her work was not as sharp as her earlier writing. In 1920, however, she produced, "The Age of Innocence." Many critics think this is her best novel. In it she deals with the lack of honesty that lies behind the apparent innocence of the New York social world. A man and woman see their lives ruined because they have duties they cannot escape. Edith Wharton received America's top writing award, the Pulitzer Prize, for "The Age of Innocence." In 1993, the movie of "The Age of Innocence" created new interest in her work.