The Age of Innocence

Written by Edith Wharton

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow

"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!" Awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, the first to be presented to a woman, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is a powerful depiction of love and desire in New York's glamorous Gilded Age. When Newland Archer, happily engaged to May Welland, meets fiancé's cousin Ellen, his entire future is cast into doubt: strong-willed, witty, and entirely unpretentious, Ellen is unlike any woman he has ever met. He is torn between his infatuation for her and his duty to marry May. In subtle and elegant language, Wharton delivers a critical look at the social mores of the time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
• Release date: Sep 16, 2016
• ISBN: 9781843799795

Edith Wharton

EDITH WHARTON (1862 - 1937) was a unique and prolific voice in the American literary canon. With her distinct sense of humor and knowledge of New York’s upper-class society, Wharton was best known for novels that detailed the lives of the elite including: The House of Mirth, The Custom of Country, and The Age of Innocence. She was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and one of four women whose election to the Academy of Arts and Letters broke the barrier for the next generation of women writers.

Reviews for The Age of Innocence

[Adele · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's a classic, which I had never read before, and it was beautiful, moving, and surprisingly relevant. Highly recommend it.

[Karen Montanaro · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Compelling story beautifully narrated. Excellent through and through. I loved it.

[Maria Jette · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The book is fantastic— but I couldn’t endure the reader after half an hour of mispronounced foreign words, the word “a” regularly pronounced like the letter A, and a general feeling that the reader didn’t grasp the feel of the 1890s in any way—very flat delivery. The more theatrical reading by Barbara Caruso for Recorded Books is here on Scribd— it’s 1000% better, in my view.

[jessica jones · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Always a Beautiful story and worth reading again and again.