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The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Start date: April 1, 2020

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7. The Age of Innocence

“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted."

Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.”

I have heard that not everyone loves Edith Wharton like I do, and I do not understand this - maybe it is because I was never forced to re ...more

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Feb 13, 2017 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I read this book back in 2010 and rated it 2 stars. I don't know with what brain I was reading it or what was going on at the time, but I totally missed how wonderful the story was and how well written it was. Most of the novel takes place among the upper class in New York City in the 1870s. It is an opulent world, but it is a closed society ruled by strict adherence to a moral code of conduct. It is a society which is difficult to get into but easy to fall out of. Wharton wrote so beautifully o ...more

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Dec 20, 2011 Sarah rated it liked it

Vapid rich people do a whole lot of nothing. Some things never change. Parts were very amusing. Maybe cause I've seen so many TV versions, it really dragged.
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