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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton · 1920

Historical Fiction · ranked #35 in category

Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and fro

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Category
Historical Fiction
First published
1920 · 1920s
Author
Edith Wharton
Standing
Recommended

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