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The Age of Innocence

  • Writer: Kathy Miller
    Kathy Miller
  • Jan 2, 2022
  • 1 min read

Edith Wharton Date Read 1/2/22

First Published 1920


If you liked The Great Gatsby, you'll love this novel. This is essentially the grandparents of Daisy and her husband. The same society with the same rules living the same lives, a generation apart.


As I love Gatsby, I really enjoyed this novel. The pace is great, the story is interesting, the characters totally believable.


It is a classic story of man and woman falling in love but kept separate for reasons; societal rules, money, the machinations of a rival... Already just in my LLL I've read this story several times. Yet, occasionally, it is able to break my heart anew. Wharton managed it.


I tried to think of negatives but I can't come up with any. It is just a really well written novel.


Time to read: three days

Rereadability: yes

Classic: definitely!

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