The age of Innocence

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Wharton, Edith	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024
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An elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870's, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets May's cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence.

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Timeless Writing and Gossip-fueled Adventure submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on August 23, 2020, 9:39am Passionate, lyrical writing meets sensational scandals in the turbulent love affair between a well-mannered man and a beautiful, spirited bachelorette in this beloved 1920 classic. Caught between his social commitments and personal desires, Newland Archer must decide what's most important to him under the vigilant eye of New York's high society. The sanctions against saying the wrong thing silences all and sundry.

Literally the Worst Book I Have Ever Read submitted by carcat15 on June 15, 2022, 10:44am The Age of Innocence is an extremely slow, boring book. I fell asleep multiple times while trying to get through the entire thing. The only character development is Newland Archer deciding whether or not to cheat on his wife with her cousin, which gives off a mysogynistic and selfish tone that the only commitment he has to his wife is due to his personal reputation. If you want to read a book about love affairs in the 1920s with lavish writing, read The Great Gatsby instead.

Edith Wharton, secretly hilarious submitted by tcramer318 on January 29, 2023, 9:21pm I was hooked from the second page when I read "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." There's a ton of observational humor about people, high society, the changing times that's still relevant even now. Honestly looking forward to reading more Edith Wharton.