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The Age of Innocence
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June 1, 2013
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June 30, 2013

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Katie
Jun 30, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
The right book at the right time. It was exactly what I wanted to read right now and I loved it.

Edited and improved review: I like books where the face of the world is eventually, slowly but definitely, shown to be different from what the world is really like. As strange a comparison as it might seem to make, this general plot arc is actually often employed in dystopian novels or books with dystopian settings: we begin with an automaton, a person who has bought into their system, and over the co
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Ashley Husemoller
I liked this one. Wharton doesn't write happily-ever-after, she writes realistically. We can't predict how life will happen and we can't always know how our choices will affect us long term. One thing is for sure: We get older, we romanticize, we adapt. Time marches on. 61/1,001 ...more
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Oct 28, 2012 rated it it was amazing
A divorcée moves to town and a man falls in love with her.
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