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This was lovely, just what I needed. Edith Wharton’s writing is witty yet intricate, full of observation, introspection. She conveys the throes of unfulfilled love choked by society’s expectation with so much compassion that one can feel the pain and internal turmoil of her characters. She also draws a snarky portrait of the end of the nineteenth century New York society, its expectations, hypocrisy, conventionality. Some of her dialogue is downright funny and made me smile several times through
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In this classic, Wharton turns a gently satirical eye on upper crust New Yorkers during the Guilded Age. Newland Archer, fully entrenched in the rules of that society and engaged to the beautiful but somewhat blank May, has his world turned upside down by the entrance of the nonconforming Countess Ellen Olenska. As the inner circle attempts to tamp down Ellen’s proclivity for scandal, Archer’s gradual recognition of his changing attitudes are masterfully handled by Wharton, who writes with nuanc
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I enjoy a good classic and this fits the bill. Its only drawback is Wharton's verbosity at times
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