A young woman's coming-of-age forces her mother's sophisticated London drawing-room circle to confront how much of their frank talk a girl on the edge of adulthood should be allowed to hear.
Books mentioned in The Awkward Age (12)
Denise by Alexandre Dumas fils: “What earthly intellectual distinction, what'prestige' of achievement, would have attached to the substance of such things as'Denise,' as'Monsieur Alphonse,' as'Francillon' (and we take the Dumas of the supposedly subtler period)”
Monsieur Alphonse by Alexandre Dumas fils: “What earthly intellectual distinction, what'prestige' of achievement, would have attached to the substance of such things as'Denise,' as'Monsieur Alphonse,' as'Francillon' (and we take the Dumas of the supposedly subtler period)”
Francillon by Alexandre Dumas fils: “What earthly intellectual distinction, what'prestige' of achievement, would have attached to the substance of such things as'Denise,' as'Monsieur Alphonse,' as'Francillon' (and we take the Dumas of the supposedly subtler period)”
The Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”
Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”
John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen: “What virtues of the same order would have attached to'The Pillars of Society,' to'An Enemy of the People,' to'Ghosts,' to'Rosmersholm' (or taking also Ibsen's'subtler period') to'John Gabriel Borkmann,' to'The Master-Builder'?”
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen: “Ibsen is in fact wonderfully a case in point, since from the moment he's clear, from the moment he's'amusing,' it's on the footing of a thesis as simple and superficial as that of'A Doll's House'--while from the moment he's by apparent intention comprehensive and searching it's on the footing of an effect as confused and obscure as'The…”
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen: “Ibsen is in fact wonderfully a case in point, since from the moment he's clear, from the moment he's'amusing,' it's on the footing of a thesis as simple and superficial as that of'A Doll's House'--while from the moment he's by apparent intention comprehensive and searching it's on the footing of an effect as confused and obscure as'The…”
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen: “The terms here used, obviously, are matters of appreciation, and there is no short cut to proof (luckily for us all round) either that "Monsieur Alphonse" develops itself on the highest plane of irony or that "Ghosts" simplifies almost to excruciation. If "John Gabriel Borkmann" is but a pennyworth of effect as to a character we can…”
Books that mention The Awkward Age (2)
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “the quality of excruciation in much of Henry James (for instance, The Europeans, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove)”
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag: “Same passage as The Wings of the Dove above.”