Perfect...the insight into society the nuances of class, and social appropriateness that can make you or brake you...the fact that people are still so petty, and they keep finding things to define "right" or "wrong" make this book timeless...Edith Wharton...genius, genius, genius...
The Age of Innocence the movie, is surely one of my favourites. I found it touching and poignant. Yet, Wharton's writing left me cold. I first attempted to read this book soon after I had watched to movie a few years ago. I found I couldn't go past the first four or five pages. Then, recently I deci...
I started out being puzzled by the obsessive concern for the expectations of others within high society social circles that is expressed by the main character of this book. But then it occurred to me that Edith Wharton was accentuating the foibles of an earlier time, perhaps even exaggerating. The...
With cutting humor and sharp insight, Wharton writes a layered novel that will have you despising in turn each of the three parties involved in its central affair. Likewise, their individual sacrifices -- however much driven by vanity, self-importance, or sincerity -- make Ellen Olenska, Newland Ar...
Surprisingly engaging, almost like an old timey Gossip Girl. lol. I can't believe I stopped reading this book with only 70 something pages left. However, I will get back to it. I was just swept up into the much more passionate and engaging Jane Eyre.
Edith Wharton had an impeccable ability to make upper society look as ridiculous as it really is. This time she takes on upper New York society in the 1870s.The double standard shown in this book between men and women is just asinine. Countess Olenska is shown as unfortunate because she left her cru...
I should have read this book years ago, and have no idea why I didn't do so. Edith Wharton's novel about the social mores of New York's late 19th Century upper crust and its social mores is absolutely fascinating. The main characters are Newland Archer, his fiance (and later wife) May Welland, and...
Wharton is one of my favorite authors for the descriptions of New York and high society of the late 19th century. Her stories may have been limited in scope as to the reality of the time but it reminds one of the glittering illusion of the super rich through a tinted looking glass.
"It was the old New York way of taking life "with effusion of blood"; the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except the behavior of those who gave rise to them."Set in New York's gold...
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