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    The Age of Innocence
    The Age of Innocence
    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
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateSep 16, 2016
    ISBN9781843799795
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    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.

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    • 5/5
      It's a classic, which I had never read before, and it was beautiful, moving, and surprisingly relevant. Highly recommend it.
    • 5/5
      Compelling story beautifully narrated. Excellent through and through. I loved it.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      Always a Beautiful story and worth reading again and again.