The Awkward Age
London: William Heinemann, 1899. Very Good Condition. Item #49527
London: William Heinemann, 1899. Colonial Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; vi,414,[2]pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, contemporary bookseller/circulating library ticket to rear pastedown; a Very Good, bright and sound example.
One of the author's most divisive novels, a portrait of two young women on the cusp of entering adult society for the first time. "The novel develops its Blakean... theme of the importance of leaving Innocence, confronting the world of Experience bravely, and defining Evil clearly to oppose it and so achieve human maturity, as Isabel Archer had done in The Portrait of a Lady" (Oxford Dictionary of American Biography). Edmund Wilson hated it.
BAL 10636 (Note); see also Edel & Laurence A53.
Price: $300.00