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Oct 28, 2016
Kristel
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Pulitzer Prize winner of 1921 is a portrait of New York on the precipice of change. Old New York has it's rules and society but things are changing as the people cling to their ways. Newland Archer is marrying May Welland. Her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska returns to the US from a bad marriage with a plan to divorce but she is persuaded not because it isn't the way it is done. Newland champion's Ellen at his wife to be wish and his own desire and soon he is on the outside of all his and her rel
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Newland Archer is engaged but is attracted to the married cousing of his fiancee. An interesting look into upperclass New York life at the end of the 1800's. I found Newland to be rather annoying and like both women far more than I liked him.
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I liked this one. Wharton doesn't write happily-ever-after, she writes realistically. We can't predict how life will happen and we can't always know how our choices will affect us long term. One thing is for sure: We get older, we romanticize, we adapt. Time marches on. 61/1,001
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I enjoyed this book quite a bit but I would have loved it if the characters
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Social games in NYC
May 28, 2007
Jessica Haider
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Jun 17, 2009
Diane
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Jennifer Paul
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