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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

In the New York of the 1870s, Newland Archer is engaged to the perfect May Welland and falls in love with her unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1921, the first woman to do so. Every dinner party in it is a battle fought with good manners.

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Reading time

About 6 hr 50 min

Where to find it

On the Society shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #541. In the public domain in the United States.