The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

Written by Edith Wharton
Read by David Horovitch
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

• Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
• Release date: 04-29-08
• Publisher: Audible Studios

The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921…..

Countess Ellen Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society. She bears with her an independence and an awareness of life which stirs the educated sensitivity of the charming Newland Archer, engaged to be married to her cousin, May Welland. Though he accepts the society’s standards and rules he is acutely aware of their limitations. He knows May will assure him a conventional future but Ellen, scandalously separated from her husband, forces Archer to question his values and beliefs. With their love intensifying where does Archer’s ultimate loyalty lie?

“A wonderful look at New York’s upper crust in the 1870s, whose lives revolve around being seen at the opera and inviting the right people to dinner parties. Wharton exposes a world she knew firsthand from the distance of the 1920s, and what she shows us is just how regulated life was among the elite in a New York which was cosmopolitan, but prided itself on it’s rigid and old fashioned conventions. Because this is Wharton, we know this love story is not likely to end with a Happily Ever After, but along the way she touches on interesting themes and presents us with a fascinating cast of characters who may not be likeable, but don’t lack for entertainment value. This audiobook version was narrated to perfection by David Horovitch. Narrator David Horovitch has had a television career spanning over 40 years. One of his most notable roles was in 1984 as Detective Inspector Slack in the first BBC Miss Marple adaptation .”