Volume 40, Number 18 · November 4, 1993
A Night at the Opera
By Gabriele Annan
'Fast and Loose' and 'The Buccaneers'
by Edith Wharton, edited and with an introduction by Viola Hopkins Winner
University Press of Virginia, 514 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Buccaneers
by Edith Wharton, completed by Marion Mainwaring
Viking, 405 pp., $22.00
The Age of Innocence
directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Jay Cocks, by Martin Scorsese
Columbia Pictures
The Age of Innocence: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Edith Wharton
by Martin Scorsese, by Jay Cocks
Newmarket Press, 190 pp., $49.50
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton, Introduction by R.W.B. Lewis
Collier, 366 pp., $9.00 (paper)
'A Whartonfest is upon us,' Kate Muir predicted in the London Observer in August. She meant on the screen: Scorsese's monumental, heartbreaking The Age of Innocence was about to open, and other Wharton films were projected or already available on video. She put down Wharton's revived popularity to the fact that all but one of E.M. Forster's novels are now completed, so the studios need a new source for upmarket costume drama. There could be other reasons: Wharton's feminism, for one. In The Age of Innocence Scorsese pans in as the hero declares that women should have the same rights as men.
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