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The Age of Innocence
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I read this in Serial Reader, but I chose it because I wanted to try the LitWit podcast, and knew they were talking about Pulitzer winners from the 1920s. I'd only read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, and found I liked it so much more as a woman in her 30s than I did when I originally read it for school. So this was a good one to read.
Edith Wharton apparently wrote this as a tribute to the end of the America that disappeared, the class system, the endlessly wealthy, the old society days. It starts out feeling like it will just be a diorama of high society but ends up being a quite intense story of love vs. "society-appropriate" marriage.
And then there are lines that make me think of 21st century YA novels, but then I realized that it also harkens back to E.M. Forster and similar authors. Lines like this:
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Worth reading, probably more there than I'm giving credit to, and I'm ready for another Wharton now!
Edith Wharton apparently wrote this as a tribute to the end of the America that disappeared, the class system, the endlessly wealthy, the old society days. It starts out feeling like it will just be a diorama of high society but ends up being a quite intense story of love vs. "society-appropriate" marriage.
And then there are lines that make me think of 21st century YA novels, but then I realized that it also harkens back to E.M. Forster and similar authors. Lines like this:
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Worth reading, probably more there than I'm giving credit to, and I'm ready for another Wharton now!
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November 27, 2016
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November 27, 2016
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December 25, 2016
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December 25, 2016
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Dec 30, 2016 06:57AM
If you liked this, I definitely recommend Wharton's "The House of Mirth."
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She's one of my favourite writers! House of Mirth and the Custom of the Country are my my favourites. They both head into more satirical territory.
Jennifer wrote: "She's one of my favourite writers! House of Mirth and the Custom of the Country are my my favourites. They both head into more satirical territory."I share your admiration for Edith Wharton. I read and reviewed Custom of the Country a few years ago. It's a biting satire. Here's what I wrote about Undine Sprague:
"Undine Spragg is one of literature’s great anti-heroines. She’s beautiful, spoiled, vain, selfish, shallow, materialistic, and vindictive—Daisy Miller’s evil doppelganger. A shameless, nouveau riche social climber, Undine out-Scarlett’s Scarlett, and there’s no Rhett Butler to tell her he doesn’t give a damn." ;)
This is exactly what I needed to hear! I'm on Serial Reader trying to pick my next book, and wanted to check this out first. I also have read Ethan Frome and liked it a lot, but that's all I've read by Wharton. I'm picking this one!
Ericka wrote: "This is exactly what I needed to hear! I'm on Serial Reader trying to pick my next book, and wanted to check this out first. I also have read Ethan Frome and liked it a lot, but that's all I've rea..."Oh good! Can I admit I kinda forgot about Serial Reader? But I did enjoy this book, with or without that app.
