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#ThisIsBerk ...shires. Or, if you wish to visit a home that was owned by Edith Wharton, a trip to the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts is in order.

The tagged book is one of her most well known works, a study in the class system in the US; she‘s a critic of it. I read this years ago and liked it. #SoaringScores

I love Edith Wharton! This novel is another incisive, gut wrenching look at “moneyed” New York and its stifling conventions. Newland Archer is engaged to the lovely May Welland, but when May‘s cousin Countess Ellen Olenska arrives in New York, scandal follows. https://cannonballread.com/2019/09/the-age-of-innocence-elcicco/

One of Boxall‘s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, The Age of #Innocence was published in 1920, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction In 1921. It has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, including the 1993 film directed by Martin Scorsese.

#AugustABC
@Eggs

I do love Edith Wharton

#innocence #augustabc

Day 9 - #Innocence #AugustABC

These are books that I have read and enjoyed that deal with Innocence.

#LetsTravelAugust #NewYork
Each of these novels take place in NYC. I will be traveling to NYC this month to attend a Yankees game, courtesy of my son.
This prompt can be anything #NewYork but without hesitation, my mind went right to NYC.🗽

Ah, how stifling and pretentious, the elite society, where conventions, and conformity to the social codes are the rules. This tale about love, passion, and choices, tells of characters living their lives by the rules of society, and of not following their hearts. The writing beautifully captures the essence of the era and place. Wharton makes us love and get angry at the characters at the same time. 👇
#Booked2029 #publicdomain #gutenberg

The most important thing to know when it comes to The Age Of Innocence is that you need to guard against being fooled by its subtlety. On its face, it‘s a slow-moving society story of upper-class New York City at the end of the 19th century, but its critique and commentary goes so much deeper than that! A good one for fans of Jane Austen's Emma. Full review here: http://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-age-of-innocence-edith-wharton/

I did a Serial/audio combo because I wanted to finish it in June... written or spoke word, this book is fantastic.

Wharton‘s writing is perfection for me. Witty, smart, poignant, and she‘s able to convey so much emotion in so few words. This story is primarily a love story, but it‘s also a commentary on morals and values of the upper class in 1870s New York City. I loved and hated the characters, and that ending. 💔

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#1001books

Closer than his bones...

You guys. Edith Wharton was the real deal and I‘m so in love with this story.

Day 26 - #Modern #QuotsyJune19 #AgeofInnocence #EdithWharton

Finished O‘ Pioneers earlier today. Loved it! Starting this tonight.

So much to think and talk about here! I imagine the narrator provoking different opinions but I saw him as a man who sees himself as Very Original and accidentally married someone he didn‘t love as useless C19 men often do. I feel Edith and I found him unintentionally hilarious a lot. Ellen and May were such different versions of trapped women surviving repressive societies as best they could. Great bookclub book - I could talk about it for hours

This made me 😂

I am just getting started on this month‘s Serial read. I adore Edith Wharton, so I‘m excited about this one. ❤️

I hope to get to this book on my tbr soon (like this year!), a book set in New York's Upper East Side in the 19th century.

#AMonthOfSongs #Eastside

This is the playground at a nearby church. I was going to take one of the much better playground at the grade school but it was full of children and I was afraid they would think I was some creepy stalker. I did, however, go for a walk and reward myself with a Diet Ski from Casey‘s (a soda made locally that is the elixir of the gods). Didn‘t think I‘d like this book but so far I‘m enjoying it! #litsywalkersbingo. #litsywalkers.

#LiteraryLove #Admirer This is the first book I thought of when I saw today's prompt. @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88

Time to snuggle in with a classic. My first classic of the year, and my first Wharton. 😊📖 #classics #currentread

Finished my first book of the year! Wharton‘s writing is exquisite but I had a difficult time caring for the characters. #LitsyAtoZ #MountTBR @BookishMarginalia

Begun January 1, 2019. Completed January 4, 2019.

My first EW, & it's not fair to say words as mere as "i loved it" for someone who could spin a story so beautiful. Following statement sums up this tale of old New York code, it's conformation to society - "It was the old New York way, of taking life 'without effusion of blood'; the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes', ?

#ghastly #quotsyoct18 @TK-421

Newland Archer thinking to himself, "Marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas."
I am loving this book. Beautiful writing!

#SeptemberTBR #ReadingResolutions #BOTMbuddyread #Litsybuddyread #thatsummerread #bookclub
The camera on my IPhone wobbles & is blurry.Took this as selfie! So not so great.Been chatting with Apple;may have to bring phone in.Anyway, I may be posting with no pics or off Litsy until this is straightened out.
Jane Austen (carol Shields)
Everything Happens for a Reason
Fall of Poppies
Rules of Civility
That Summer
The Marriage Plot
Us Against Them

Found this copy at a #usedbookstore, and it belonged to Jeny/Jerry Rawlins. I feel like writing a letter to Jeny/Jerry letting her/him know that I'll take good care of it.

#bookclub #Septpicks

Took me awhile to get into this book on serial reader; the introduction to this Signet Classics copy by Regina Barreca really ignited me. My first Wharton. Visiting her home in Lennox MA this fall with my English teacher friend, so I have to read something she wrote, right?! Also a bookclub pick for September, paired with Jeffery Eugenides novel, The Marriage Plot.

Sad to think that a century later, there are still women who have this mentality. (And seek to impose it on others in the name of it being "the natural way of things.")

#SerialReader

@vivastory I think this is my favorite celebratory graphic so far. 😹😹

#SerialReader

Doing some #audiocrochet and getting sweet grooming kisses from Joy. I think she wants me to make her a new kitty bed.

I‘m absolutely loving this book!

#bookhaul from y local used bookstore! I got it in my head that I want to read 10 books (that I haven‘t already read) from the Modern Library‘s 100 Best Novels, and added it to my #bookbucketlist.

My second work by Edith Wharton and I officially ❤️ her. I wholly recommend this classic about a man in love with his wife‘s married cousin, set in rigid, upper class 1870s New York society. This book is a classic for a reason and I can‘t wait to read the other novels by Wharton included in this beautiful #penguinclassicsdeluxe edition. #classic #litsyclassics

I dig it. I hope the rest of the book is this snarky.

My first Wharton.

#getmovin #roses I‘m going for the yellow roses that feature in The Age Of Innocence... loved this book 💛we only have yellow flowers in our garden & red roses 🌹🌼🌼

I don‘t know if I think this a pick or so-so. I couldn‘t put it down but I really hated the characters! I completely understand it but I wish there was one character I felt connected with.Even May didn‘t do it for me. Still the story was so compelling!

Happy Monday everyone! I‘ve been awake since 6 a.m. I picked an audiobook and have been outside watching the birds! At least I‘m out here until the 90 degree weather starts! 😅
(There is a bird in the pic but he is great at blending in) 💁🏻‍♀️😄

I finished this last night ... 💙. Very brilliant! I don‘t know if I‘ll ever understand how I feel about the ending.. that his son “ took after him “ What did she feel when she saw him ? What did Newland Archer feel as he sat on that bench in Paris? Powerful work from Edith Wharton... beautiful writing, memorable characters, classic story told in & of the society of its time. #Getmovin #believer I‘m a believer in the classics 🙏🏻

#getmovin #somethinglikethis is what we have been looking forward to, some morning dappled sunlight .... the sun is a rare sighting these days. ( I‘m loving this book 👍🏻)

Next up for me ... I‘m ready for a classic ! And what a beautiful edition this is 💙

I bought this at a thrift store. They were having a sale on romance novels and, even though I told the clerk it was not a romance (see Pulitzer Prize note on cover!) she insisted it was and sold it to me for 50 cents. #worsecover #maylovesclassics @Sarah83

It‘s got Winona Ryder on so it‘s not all bad but don‘t like film tie-in covers and I‘ve seen loads of pretty covers for this. #worsecover #maylovesclassics #litsyclassics

I read this #lovestory many years ago. It's not always the happiest of stories, but I loved it. #maylovesclassics @Sarah83 @Bambolina_81

Edith Wharton pops into my mind when I think of #badandboujee. I am not sure that she would have come to mind to any of the members of Migos. 😂 But of all her books I‘ve read, the forerunner in my mind is The Age of Innocence. It‘s also my favorite of hers. 😍😍

All of that #AmericanMoney but love still hurts 💔

#Aprella @Cinfhen @Mdargusch @emilyhaldi @Reviewsbylola

1. The view from my little patio.
2. Literary white dudes have feelings in Brooklyn.
3. Visit a city, see museums and shows, eat ridiculous amounts of good food.
4. Brownish.
5. Age of Innocence. I re-read it constantly.
#HumpDayPost
@MinDea

I recently finished AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton for the #ageofinnocence2018 readalong and all I can say, is why haven‘t I picked up Wharton before!? The writing is so rich and decadent; with cleverly constructed criticism of New York‘s upper class society, marriage and scandal. I found myself entirely engrossed in the story of love, obsession, and loyalty that plays out in this novel.

#bookreview #classicliterature #edithwharton

I‘m sure it would have been better reading it without Serial Reader.

It‘s been moody rainy weather, so weekend plans have been rearranged. A lazy Saturday calls for waffles with lemon curd, raspberries and whipped cream and fragrant Earl Grey tea in new tea cups. I‘m also devouring my current read, Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I might even do a bit of baking; a flourless chocolate cake has been calling my name. Plans for the evening include, homemade soup, and catching up on The Alienist miniseries.

Oh wow @batsy This is the most beautiful book outside & in ( the In is yet to be discovered) ... so beautifully bound. I‘m so grateful 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻