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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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While reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, you may want to see my questions related to it as answered in the alt.usage.english (AUE) Usenet newsgroup. My thanks to the participating AUE members. The focus of my questions was the language: rare words, funny or original expressions, special or strange constructs — as I saw them, from within my own idiosyncrasies.
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I had never read anything by Edith Wharton before.... but she's now one of my favorites. She takes a rather simple 1870s love story that Henry James would make drudgery to read and she brings the characters to life. Can't wait to read another of her works.
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