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The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Start date: January 1, 2013

Finish date: January 31, 2013

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Jan 2013 -The Age of Innocence

Newland's inaction - spoiler alert
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Jan 22, 2013 Anindyta rated it liked it · review of another edition

Don't care if it's Chinatown or on Riverside
I don't have any reasons
I've left them all behind
I'm in a New York state of mind

Bagi saya yang di hidup dan besar di kota kecil negara ini, jangankan mau mimpi tentang New York, mengalami Jakarta state of mind aja sulit. Namun memang nggak jarang sih, saya membaca dan menonton bagian-bagian kota Nyu-Yok yang sibuk hiruk pikuk, yang katanya kota yang tidak pernah tidur ini. Dan…well, nampaknya mind set saya sudah menetapkan bahwa yang namanya New York i ...more

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Jan 01, 2013 Katherine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literary, domestic-fiction, classics

Wharton's Pulizer Prize winning book is about New York's upper class in the 1870's. Into this world where appearance is everything, Countess Olenska, who has left her Polish husband and is contemplating divorce. Archer Newland is sent to talk her out of the divorce for the good of the family. He immediately falls in love with her, even though he is betrothed to another young woman, May Welland.

The big question is what is the Innocence the title refers to? The closed New York society? Or May Well ...more

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Dec 31, 2011 Krissy Chun rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, recommended

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This was probably the first book that I'd read that left me feeling "book hangover", the first read-through left me feeling hollow and bereft for days and that somehow cut deeper than many stories that made me cry (I cry EASY but not a single drop of tear was shed reading this). Thinking back, it was always the romance, the what-could-have-been that made this book so special to 15-year-old me. I was still vaguely aware of the social commentary, of Newland Archer's biased perspective, and of Whar ...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Beth (bibliobeth) rated it really liked it

I really wasn't sure what to think of this book when I first started it. However by about fifty pages in, something clicked and I started to enjoy it. It makes so many statements about society, snobbery, class, women, innocence - however ironic the title may be! Stick with it and enjoy Wharton's dry wit, I definitely wasn't disappointed.

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Dec 26, 2012 Grandpa Jud rated it it was amazing

A well-crafted delicious tale of romance and forbidden fruit leaving the reader constantly wondering,"'Where do we go from here?" and with the reader having own wishes regarding how the story may play out - wishes destined to be either dashed or fulfilled. Well worth reading! This book won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize and it deserves such a prize. ...more

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