The Age of Innocence in Around the World in 80 Books

Apr 27, 2019 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: relationships, the-classics-club, new-york-city, around-the-world

Newland Archer has it all---he's a gentleman lawyer, occasionally popping into the office to do little bits of work, but generally occupying himself dining and socializing with his fellow affluent friends---and now, to cap off a wonderful life, his beloved May has agreed to marry him. What more could he want? Until he meets May's bohemian cousin, Ellen, and falls under her spell....

I am enchanted with this story, set in 1870's Gilded Age New York City, when the values and morals adhered to by so ...more

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Jun 17, 2020 Georgia Carvalho rated it really liked it

I initially rated it 3 stars, but the more I think about her subtle irony and sneaky sense of humor about NY society life during the golden age, the more I like this book. This is in a way a book without a hero, you can't really feel for any of the main characters, since their problems are of their own doing, but you can empathize on some level. ...more

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Apr 25, 2020 Lisa of Hopewell rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio-books, pulitzer-prize-winners, read-in-2020

The Story

(About opera)

…since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

(About a member of the main social set)

No one in the …set could understand why [she] had submitted so tamely to the eccentricities of a husband who filled the house with long-haired men and short-haired women…..

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May 12, 2015 Nancy H rated it liked it

I read this book for a book club discussion, and we all agreed that we are so thankful that we did not live in this time period and in this class in society! The book was a very good slice-of-life portrait of the wealthy in New York City in the 1870's, and as such was a good book. Of course, I kept finding myself talking to the characters and telling them what to do that would make their lives so much better --- but for some reason they didn't listen - lol! ...more

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Nov 22, 2008 Laura rated it liked it

This is a 3.5 book, in my opinion. The other Edith Wharton I read, although depressing, was much better (more of a page-turner). This one was a bit unbelievable and just frustrating all the way thru. I hoped the ending would resolve lots of things, but it was just as frustrating! Glad to be thru with this one.

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Nov 18, 2008 Nanosynergy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, 2009read, pulitzer, 1001-boxall, 100bestnovels-ml-board, 100bestnovels-radcliffe, re-read, saw-the-movie-tvshow, favorites, read-ml100

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