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The works of Edith Wharton undergo a revival on the screen. (Originated from Orange County Register)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19930917
Author:Takahama, Valerie 

    In the opening scene of ``The Age of Innocence,'' Edith Wharton limns the array of carriages available to opera-goers in the 1870s: the private brougham, the spacious family landau and the humbler but more convenient hired ``Brown coupe,'' which would whisk one away while others waited in the cold for their own coachmen. 
    She writes: ``It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.'' 
    Wharton's opulent world might seem far away in time and custom, ...

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