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Age Innocence Edith Wharton Story Newland Archer Lawyer

"The Age of Innocence" (1920) by Edith Wharton centers on Newland Archer's societal entanglements with May Welland and Ellen Olenska.

"The Age of Innocence" (1920) by Edith Wharton explores the life of Newland Archer and his entanglement with May Welland and her cousin Ellen Olenska in New York society.

Front the Age of Innocence
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Edith Wharton
1920
the story of Newland Archer a lawyer and his involvement with two women: May Wellland who becomes his wife, and her cousin , Ellen Olenska the wife of a Polish count
thirty years later Newland, now a widower, visits Paris with his son

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