Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence forms around the tension between a creative and honest and passionate woman and man who resists and retreats to a closed society.
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The Mount muses on 100 years of the Age of Innocence
100 years ago, Edith Wharton wrote the Age of Innocence in a world shaken by war, pandemic and economic collapse, and this summer, writers and readers around the world are finding her work timely.
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Writers share a residency with Edith Wharton in the pandemic
Writers Sue Miller, Patricia Park and Dayna Tortorici shared a residency in Edith Wharton’s home this spring, as Covid-19 transformed the world around them.
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Edith Wharton’s own ‘Age of Innocence’ comes home on its 100th birthday
A hundred years ago, after World War I, Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence. This winter, her own copy of the book has returned to her library at the Mount.
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Edith Wharton comedies return live to Shakespeare & Company
Two women are sitting at an outdoor table at the cool end of a hot day in Rome. They are looking out at the ruins of the Roman forum, and they have known each other since they were teenagers. On another ridge, another woman is thinking with longing and fear of […]
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Edith Wharton gets into the trenches in World War I
The tunnel cut into the hill was wholly dark except for “an occasional narrow slit screened by branches.” The gunners had screens behind them, to keep any betraying light from showing where they sat with guns between their knees. Coming out into a “gutted house among fruit trees,” a woman […]
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