The Age of Innocence - The Original Classic Edition (Paperback)

from lit_chick

Brilliantly written, The Age of Innocence captures at once the polished outward charm and the inner, well-oiled machinations of 1870s New York City society. Protagonist Newland Archer is a young, affluent lawyer living an elegant life within the familiar, rigid social strictures of his class. He ...

from klarusu

This is a masterful work by Wharton, set in the upper echelons of New York society in the 1870s. It deals with the lives of Newland Archer, his young bride May and her cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, against a backdrop of the shallow and exclusive high society that constrained them at the tim...

from rainpebble

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; (4 1/2*) This a book about living your life in respect to appearances. And in 'old' New York it was ALL about appearances. There is a sameness within all marriages, a sameness between the ladies as well as the gentlemen, a sameness in what time the lights go...

from rainpebble

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; (4 1/2*) This a book about living your life in respect to appearances. And in 'old' New York it was ALL about appearances. There is a sameness within all marriages, a sameness between the ladies as well as the gentlemen, a sameness in what time the lights go...

from snat

Part of why I love The Age of Innocence so much is for the very reason my students hate it--the subtlety of action in a society constrained by its own ridiculous rules and mores. In Old New York, conformity is key and the upper-crust go about a life of ritual that has no substance or meaning. Bot...