The Age of Innocence
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The Age of Innocence
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Narrated by:
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Lorna Raver
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By:
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Edith Wharton
Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for literature ever awarded to a woman, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York.
In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870s, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. But before their engagement is announced, he meets the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, May’s cousin, who has returned to New York after a long absence. Ellen mirrors his own sense of disillusionment with society and the
“good marriage” he is about to embark upon and provokes a moral struggle within him as he continues to go through the motions.
A social commentary of surprising compassion and insight, The Age of Innocence toes the line between the comedy of manners and the tragedy of thwarted love.
(P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic reviews
“ Lorna Raver manages to present distinctive and perfectly modulated voices for over a dozen characters…Raver is not yet a household name in audiobooks, but she should be. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
(AudioFile)“In some ways, Edith Wharton’s classic novel feels more current than ever.”
(New York Times)“Wharton’s characters leap out from the pages and…become very real. You know their hearts, souls, and yearnings and the price they pay for those yearnings.”
(San Francisco Examiner)Any additional comments?
I originally bought this book some years ago narrated by david horovitch and have just got round to listening to it. it was awful, spoken very slow with gaps between sentences. I gave up and then found this version which I liked.the three main characters are newland archer, may welland and countess olanski and in their own way are all self absorbed.
I gave it 4 stars because I finished it.
american classic narrated by an american.
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Brilliant novel and excellent narration
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