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Description: THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton - FULL AudioBook P1 of 2 🎧📖 | Greatest🌟AudioBooks 🌟 ► Start your F R E E Audiobooks .com 30 day trial & get your 1st audiobook FREE! 🎧 affiliates.audiobooks.com/tracking/scripts/click.php?a_aid=5b8c26085f4b8 🛒 S H O P great books & gifts: amazon.com/shop/GreatestAudioBooks 🌟► F R E E 30 day Audible Trial: amzn.to/2Iu08SE The Age of Innocence Edith WHARTON (1862 - 1937) In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic "old revolutionary stock" families that rule New York's social life. Under the rules of this society, "being things" is better than "doing things" and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of everything else. In this Gilded Age, when America’s expansion and increased industrialism produce a group of newly wealthy robber barons and financiers, the patient, time-honored values of the old ruling class, and century, are giving way to the expediencies of the new. Caught at this cusp, a triangle of lovers, who must choose between the expectations of family and society, and the deepest yearnings of the heart. Newly engaged couple, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, and May Welland, a society debutante, are part of the old world, where the "right people" follow the "correct rules" and marry into "acceptable families." The arrival from Europe of May’s cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, complicates their union, as Ellen’s mysterious past threatens to cast a shadow of scandal over the newly betrothed couple. Newland Archer, at first critical of Ellen's bohemian lifestyle, and her seemingly wilful ignorance of the rules and customs of his Old New York, is soon captivated by Ellen's warmth, spirit, and her generous and loving heart. Will he cast off the life for which he's been groomed, or sacrifice happiness for duty and the greater good of the social order? (Summary by Brenda Dayne) 📘 F A C E B O O K: Facebook.com/GreatestAudioBooks 💙 T W I T T E R : twitter.com/GAudioBooks 📰 S U B S C R I B E : youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks 👕 B U Y T-SHIRTS & MORE: bit.ly/1akteBP 💰 P A T R E O N: patreon.com/GreatestAudioBooks 🌟 F R E E Audiobooks .com 🎧 30 day trial: affiliates.audiobooks.com/tracking/scripts/click.php?a_aid=5b8c26085f4b8&a_bid=229e13d4 🎁Give the gift of audiobooks!💐 Click here: affiliates.audiobooks.com/tracking/scripts/click.php?a_aid=5b8c26085f4b8&a_bid=ec49a209 - LISTEN to the entire audiobook for free! 🌟🎧📚 #audiobook #audiobooks #freeaudiobooks #greatestaudiobooks This video: Copyright 2019. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved. Audio content is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org. Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate and an affiliate with other select companies we earn from qualifying purchases. Your purchases through affiliate links help to generate revenue for this channel. Thank you for your support.