http://www.novelwhore.com/the-age-of-innocence-by-edith-wharton-book-review/ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a fun read. Set in the late 1800's, Newland Archer is a young man with every advantage in life, engaged to May Welland but falling in love with her cousin Countess Olenska who has just returned from Europe and a disgraced marriage. The Age of Innocence regales us with the morals of a century ago that in some ways are the same, but in others are a World apart.
I guess I like how Wharton's books don't end in the typical ways that romances end today, but I'm a girl who loves happy endings, so the last chapter of her books always bum me out. also, men don't think, and are sex-crazed. that's why its up to women to be the responsible ones when it comes to affairs and things, in my opinion. It seems there is always some logic to a double standard.
KCphantasmagoric 1 year ago