SleepyWheel reviewed The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, …
Sharp, cloying and bitter sweet
4 stars
In a world of stuffy convention, privilege and ennui, Wharton traces a life that repeatedly declines to take the 'road not travelled'.
Anyone who's made a compromise with life (and who hasn't) will find some resonance here. And while the oppulent and convention-bound world can be a stifling read, that's part of the point, and Wharton's sharp irony carries you through