Romance & Drama#High Society#New York#Gilded Age
The Age of Innocence
By Edith Wharton
Newland Archer is torn between marrying respectable May Welland and loving her unconventional cousin, Countess Olenska.
Total Chapters: 2•Public Domain Free Read
Table of Contents
Book I
I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remo...
Book II
XIX. The day was fresh, with a lively spring wind full of dust. All the old ladies in both families had got out their faded sables and yellowing ermines, and the smell of camphor ...