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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
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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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