3.5k reviews for:

Masumiyet Cagi

Edith Wharton

3.89 AVERAGE

forrestempeykohl's review against another edition

4.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

maggiejo's review against another edition

4.25

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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One day you wake up thirty years later and you realize while you’ve been a good husband, father and citizen, you haven’t been yourself and you’ll never get to know who you could have been 

andyp530's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

maria_d's review against another edition

3.25

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

nataliexx6's review against another edition

4.0

reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ophelia_44's review against another edition

3.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

scarysarah's review against another edition

5.0

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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That ending. So emotionally devestating. 

victorianabigail's review against another edition

4.0

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Very well-written and poignant, with a great portrait of the menace of social norms. Archer and Countess Olenska are both well-drawn and understandable characters, but I was most interested in May and the insight and strength that Archer never really understands in her. I much preferred this to The House of Mirth.

eh_lena's review against another edition

4.0

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“in reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs”

omp's review against another edition

3.0

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This is a beautifully written classic, but I guess historical romance just isn't for me. A love triangle and commentary on social pressures should be a fabulous plot, but I was bored. I attempted the 1993 film after reading and fell asleep. I wanted more than just pretty words.
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"...he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other."
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"...an undisturbed belief in the abysmal distinction between the women one loved and respected and those one enjoyed and pitied...it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman. All the elderly ladies...regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches."
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"To get away from you as far as I could."