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The Age of Innocence
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The Age of Innocence
Audiobook11 hours

The Age of Innocence

Written by Edith Wharton

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow

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"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!" Awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, the first to be presented to a woman, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is a powerful depiction of love and desire in New York's glamorous Gilded Age. When Newland Archer, happily engaged to May Welland, meets fiancé's cousin Ellen, his entire future is cast into doubt: strong-willed, witty, and entirely unpretentious, Ellen is unlike any woman he has ever met. He is torn between his infatuation for her and his duty to marry May. In subtle and elegant language, Wharton delivers a critical look at the social mores of the time.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 16, 2016
ISBN9781843799795
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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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    Always a Beautiful story and worth reading again and again.
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    It's a classic, which I had never read before, and it was beautiful, moving, and surprisingly relevant. Highly recommend it.
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    Compelling story beautifully narrated. Excellent through and through. I loved it.
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    The book is fantastic— but I couldn’t endure the reader after half an hour of mispronounced foreign words, the word “a” regularly pronounced like the letter A, and a general feeling that the reader didn’t grasp the feel of the 1890s in any way—very flat delivery. The more theatrical reading by Barbara Caruso for Recorded Books is here on Scribd— it’s 1000% better, in my view.