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 EDITH WHARTON S THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Awarded the $1,000 Pulitzer Prize by Columbia Uni versity in June, 1921, as &quot;the American novel pub lished during the year which best presented the whole some atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of American manners and manhood.&quot; &quot;The best piece of fiction of the present season.&quot; The Outlook. &quot;Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name of America, and this is her best book. A con summate work of art. It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century and looks like a permanent addi tion to literature.&quot; William Lyon Phelps in the New York Times Book Review. &quot;A fine novel, beautifully written, big* in the best sense. A credit to American literature.&quot; Henry Seidel Canby in the New York Evening Post. &quot;Of this American generation Edith Wharton is un questionably the novelist foremost in intellectual dis tinction.&quot; The Philadelphia North American. &quot;A work of surpassing art.&quot; The Philadelphia Public Ledger. &quot;Edith Wharton has proved herself again a superb novelist.&quot; The Chicago Tribune. &quot; The Age of Innocence is by all odds the great novel of the year.&quot; The Christian World. &quot;Mrs. Wharton has written a brilliant novel. Her picture of a place and period is extraordinarily fasci nating.&quot; Heywood Broun in the New York Tribune. &quot;Mrs. Wharton has added another victory to her varied triumphs in the field of fiction.&quot; The Atlantic Monthly. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY New York London T 717