The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

• Novel
• Book language: English
• 293 pages

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a novel of manners set in New York high society of the 1870s. It follows a young lawyer, Newland Archer, as he weighs personal desire against the strict expectations of his class. It is worth listening to for its subtle portrait of an era, its moral tensions, and its quiet emotional force.

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