Book profile
The Age of Innocence
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 1920
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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In 1870s New York high society, Newland Archer, a conventional gentleman engaged to the impeccable May Welland, has his carefully ordered life disrupted when May's cousin Ellen Olenska—independent, free-thinking, and scandalously separated from her husband—arrives and forces him to question the values of his narrow world. As Archer's love for Ellen grows, he is torn between his growing passion and his duty to his fiancée and the rigid social codes of his class, ultimately having to decide where his ultimate loyalty lies.
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- Forbidden Love: “His engagement to the impeccable May Welland assures him of a safe and conventional future, until the arrival of May's cousin Ellen Olenska puts all his plans in jeopardy.” source
- Love Triangle: “until the arrival of May's cousin Ellen Olenska puts all his plans in jeopardy” source
- Marriage of Convenience: “His engagement to the impeccable May Welland assures him of a safe and conventional future” source
- Slow Burn: “As their love for each other grows, Archer has to decide where his ultimate loyalty lies.” source
- Angst: “Archer has to decide where his ultimate loyalty lies.” source
- Tragic Romance: “As their love for each other grows, Archer has to decide where his ultimate loyalty lies.” source
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