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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
In this episode, we immerse ourselves in the glittering yet suffocating world of 1870s New York high society with Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece The Age of Innocence (1920). At its heart is Newland Archer, a privileged young lawyer engaged to the beautiful but conventional May Welland, whose carefully ordered life is upended by the arrival of the enigmatic Countess Ellen Olenska—May's cousin, a separated woman fleeing a scandalous European marriage. Through exquisite prose and piercing social insight, Wharton dissects the rigid codes of propriety, duty, and reputation that…
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