The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton Free Audiobook

Written by Edith Wharton
Read by Dick Hill
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 11hrs
Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 1997

Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for literature ever awarded to a woman, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York.

The Age of Innocence is an intimate portrayal of East Coast American society in the 19th century—and the human lives that came into conflict with it. Newland Archer is heir to one of New York City’s first families, and his bride-to-be is everything he ever hoped. Then his fiancee’s older cousin leaves her European husband and appears in New York.
Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal. As all three are drawn into a love triangle filled with sensuality, subtlety, and betrayal, Archer faces a harrowing choice between happiness and the social code that has ruled his life. The resulting tale of thwarted love is filled with irony and surprise, struggle and acceptance

A social commentary of surprising compassion and insight, The Age of Innocence toes the line between the comedy of manners and the tragedy of thwarted love.

The original rip was from disk. I merged the files and trimmed the disk announcement and music where I could.