The Age of Innocence (dramatic reading)

LibriVox recording of The Age of Innocence (dramatic reading) by Edith Wharton. Read in English by a full cast of LibriVox volunteers. The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s' New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for her earlier, more brutal and critical novel, The House of Mirth. Not to be overlooked is W