The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
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The Age of Innocence

Author: Edith Wharton

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland.Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high society life she had before her marriage. Her family and former friends, however, are shocked by the idea of divorce within their social circle, and she finds herself snubbed by her own class.When Ellen and Newland fall in love, will they be able to choose between passion and conventions?This novel is part of Brilliance Audio's extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

About Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was raised in New York City in a socially prominent family. She wrote the novels The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, Old New York, The Old Maid, and The House of Mirth.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse on August 19, 2022

(L'’Amour Vainqueur - William Adolphe Bouguereau) Suddenly, before an effulgent Titian, he found himself saying: “But I ‘m only fifty-seven –“ and then he turned away. For such summer dreams it was too late; but surely not for a quiet harvest of friendship, of comradeship, in the blessed hush of her......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 11, 2021

The blurb on GR gives a good summary so I will start with that as the first paragraph: Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more......more

Goodreads review by Adam on July 26, 2020

The most perfect ending in literature - I'll never get over it.......more