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The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

330 pages

Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland in old New York society when May's cousin, the Countess Olenska, returns from Europe after leaving her husband. Newland and the Countess are drawn to each other, but the rules of their world demand that he marry May and hide what he feels.

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Love Triangle, Forbidden Love, Star-Crossed Lovers, Melancholic, Comedy of Manners

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