The Age of Innocence
A Literature, Romance, Fiction book. I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and...
«The Age of Innocence» tells the story of a forthcoming society wedding, and the threat to the happy couple from the appearance in their midst of an exotic and beautiful femme fatale, a cousin of the bride. Newland Archer is a distinguished lawyer looking forward to his marriage to shy, lovely, sheltered May Welland. But when he meets Countess Ellen Olenska, scandalously separated from her European husband, a Polish count, he...
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And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence // I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence // I can't love you unless I give you up. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence //
Tragic Tale of a Man Suffocated by Convention in 1870s New YorkNewland Archer, a promising young lawyer growing up in the cream of New York society, is engaged to May Welland. Everyone around him considers this to be a brilliant match.Except that May's cousin, Ellen Olenska, arrives from Europe, and Newland finds himself drawn to Ellen.... Un t de jazmn. S, s que no tiene nada que ver con esta maravillosa historia, pero es as como la veo: como una taza de aromtico t. Sutil. Delicada. Clida... Y a la misma vez, fra como la hipocresa que se sentaba en los palcos rojos y dorados de la vieja Academia, la noche en la que debut Madame Nilsson. La misma noche en que Newland... Beautifully written of course but not an especially interesting story. Newman Archer is actually a very unlikeable person although obviously a symptom of the society in which he was raised. I felt sorry for all of them because in the end no one was really happy. A bit depressing really. I do like the way Edith Wharton writes but sadly...
