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Into the Blue · Brodie
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
1996 · Penguin · 330 pages
FictionTriangles (Interpersonal relations)Upper classMarried peopleSeparated people
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Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but he also recognizes its limitations. His engagement to the impeccable May Welland assures him of a safe and conventional …
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