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omp 's review for:
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
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."
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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."