Vintage Tales discussion

Hi, I have found 2 editions of 'The Age of Innocence' (1920) classic novel online, and I can't seem to make out which is the original one that won the Pulitzer.

Here is the same sentence from the 2 books:
"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."

"It was one of the immense uniform stableman's most skillful instincts to have found that Americans need to make tracks in an opposite direction from delight considerably more rapidly than they need to get to it."

The first one is from AmazonClassicsEdition which has a disclaimer that it is a revised edition. So, the second one should probably be from the original one, but the novel's movie adaptation, which came out in 1993 and which had supposedly used several sentences exact word-to-word from the original, have used sentence 1 in the film. Hence the confusion.

Anybody who has a copy of the original can please check and let me know? Any other thoughts on this, like which one would you recommend reading based on the 2 sentences, are welcome:)
Thanks!

Shaifali, sorry I didn't see your post until just now! I don't own a print copy (which should have the true text) of The Age of Innocence, but I work in a college library that does. When I'm at work tomorrow, I'll check on this.

Can you link to the Goodreads records (if either of them have one) of the two online editions you're comparing, and/or link to the online versions themselves? That could be helpful. (The second one sounds awkward enough to be a machine-generated translation back into English of a foreign-language translation of the original, but I could be wrong about that.) It would also be helpful to have the page number(s) of that sentence, if you have them, or to at least know what chapter it's in so I can find it more readily.

Shaifali, the BC library has the original 1920 copyrighted text, which I have open in front of me. The sentence in question appears on p. 2, and the version you quoted first is the correct one. Hope that helps!

Hi Werner, this helps heaps! Thanks so much for going through the trouble of checking it out. Really appreciate the response! Gonna go straight to reading the original, now that I know which one it is :)

Glad to help out, Shaifali! :-)