The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton – SOLD OUT

This Great Books class is sold out. Please email human@unc.edu with your First & Last name, and phone number to be added to the waitlist.

featuring Henry Veggian, Teaching Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Recipient of the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction ever awarded to a woman, The Age of Innocence paints a timeless portrait of “society” still unmatched in American literature—an arbitrary, capricious social elite that professes inviolable standards but readily abandons them for greed and desire. Written in 1920, this great novel about a time and place long gone by—1870s New York City—beautifully captures the complexities of passion, independence, and fulfillment, and how painfully hard it can be for individuals to truly see one another and their place in the world.  — Penguin Random House, Inc.

Meeting Dates: Tuesdays, September 1 and September 8

Cost: $35, includes a copy of the book shipped to your home

Register online or call 919.962.1544