Summary from back cover:

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York.

With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones, and society people "who dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence, turning Archer's world upside down.

This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order.

Marking this as available as I also have the movie tie-in version.

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Thanks so much for this lovely book! Love reading the classics!

Sending it as a surprise RABCK! It deserves to be read and not languishing on my TBR bookshelf.

Thank you so much for my surprise RABCK. Looking forward to giving this classic a read.

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It's a complete study into the follies of people who do things because society says that is the way things must be done. While I think Archer was annoyingly weak judges by today's standards, by those of his day he was trapped by expectations and by the sort of life that was laid out for him to lead. The last chapter is especially poignant - I read it a few hours after reading the proceeding ones, so I think it had much more of an effect - quite sad and left me feeling so much for these melancholy characters.

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