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The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1920
Pages
Pages 300

A young lawyer in old New York is engaged to a proper society bride when her scandalous, freethinking cousin arrives back from Europe, and he spends the rest of his life choosing duty over the one woman he actually wanted.

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

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