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the innocence age
Title: the innocence age
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1169 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
the innocence age
INNOCENT LOVE IN THE AGE OF VANITY
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CLASS FIVE
Edith Wharton¡¯s the Age of Innocence pride a vivid scene of ¡®vanity fair¡¯ in New York in the late 19th century. Through a tragic love story between Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer, the author revealed ¡°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 …showed first 75 words of 1169 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1169 total…things become acceptable:
He remembered a sneering prophecy of poor Lawrence
Lefferts's, uttered years ago in that very room: "If
things go on at this rate, our children will be marrying
Beaufort's bastards."
It was just what Archer's eldest son, the pride of his
life, was doing; and nobody wondered or reproved.
Well, Newland¡¯s son is more lucky than him. For the new age is came. But to Newland , all is too late.
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