Book Vs Movie: "The Age of Innocence" (1993)

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie:</strong> <strong><em>The Age of Innocence</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel Vs the Martin Scorsese Film</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/The_Age_Of_Innocence.jpg" alt="" width="258" height="386" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos take a trip back in time when the social strata in America were restrictive in all aspects of your life from where you lived, worshipped, and mostly--who you wanted to marry. Our author this time is</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton"><strong>Edith Wharton</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">who grew up in America and Europe in a luxury lifestyle with the top aristocracy of the mid 19th century. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Born Edith Newbold Jones (the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses refers to her father’s family) the future Pulitzer prize winner was a world traveler at a young age who would become fluent in French, German, and Italian. She eschewed the usual fashions and expectations of women at the time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She also wrote poetry and short stories which were not considered proper for a woman in the high society of the time. In the 1880s she returned to New York and put her writing to the side as she became a debutant and looked for a proper husband. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We talk more about the fascinating life of Edith Wharton and how she came to write</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence_(1993_film)"><em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Age of Innocence</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in 1920. (And why she won the Pulitzer Prize versus the always political</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis"><strong>Sinclair Lewis</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.) There hav