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The Age of Innocence
Some lives are changed not by what happened, but by what a person never allowed to happen. Newland Archer has the future his world considers proper: a suitable marriage, a secure place in society, and a life without surprises. Then he meets a woman who does not fit neatly within those carefully arranged rules, and another possibility begins to emerge. The Age of Innocence finds its beauty in what remains restrained and unspoken — in desire, duty, and the haunting sense of a life that might have taken a different shape.
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- Author
- Edith Wharton
- Language
- English
- Edition type
- Public domain
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- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Reference
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/541
- Contributors
- Ajwen
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About the author
Edith Wharton was an American writer and one of literature’s sharpest chroniclers of high society, turning drawing rooms, marriages, and social codes into elegant studies of desire, hypocrisy, and loneliness. In The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome, she wrote with polished precision, cool irony, and a piercing understanding of people trapped by the very world that protects them. Her work includes novels, novellas, short stories, travel writing, and influential books on architecture and interior design. Though she knew New York’s elite from the inside, Wharton often viewed it with the distance of an outsider. Her truest freedom came through writing, travel, and life in France, where she could observe society from just far enough away to see it clearly.
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Love Against the World
Stories in which love comes into conflict with society, family, war, class, distance, prejudice, or fate. This collection belongs to books where love is not hidden away from the world, but placed under its pressure.