Rating: 7/10The Age of Innocence is the unfortunate love story of Newland Archer and Countess Ellen Olenska. Archer is engaged to May Welland, a docile maiden from a respectable family. Countess Olenska is the runaway wife of Count Olenski in Europe. With her circumstances, New York society looked down on her. I think Edith Wharton was really able to show the emotions behind the events in the story. It's, as said above, very unfortunate.
It took me a long time to read The Age of Innocence because there were parts which were uninteresting, for me. It's just not the kind of writing that I'm not used to reading, but it's definitely a good book. :)
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