The Age of Innocence
Written by Edith Wharton
Narrated by Dick Hill
3/5
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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?
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The novel is brilliant, but the narration dreadful. Certainly recommend finding another audiobook.