The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Newland Archer is the man who has everything. Heir to one of New York’s prominent families, a gentleman lawyer, popular and successful, he is engaged to the beautiful but conventional May Welland when May’s cousin, the exotic and worldly Countess Ellen Olenska, arrives from Poland after separating from her husband. Newland finds himself hopelessly smitten by the countess and helplessly trapped by the conventions and merciless judgments of his time and place. The Age of Innocence proceeds to entangle the three in a tale of passion pitted against the constraints and duties of New York society in the 1870’s, with outcomes that show that even those who seem to have everything don’t always get what they really want.
The Age of Innocence was serialized in four parts by the Pictorial Review in 1920 before publication in book form. It went on to win the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the first ever win by a book written by a woman. It ranks 58th on the Modern Library of the Top 100 Works of Fiction. The book has been adapted for stage and film five times, the most recently by Martin Scorsese in 1993.
Product Details
| Read by: | Elizabeth Klett |
| Length: | 9 hours 55 minutes |
| Type: | Solo reading |
| Media: | MP3 CD |
| Package: | Paper sleeve |
| Item No.: | CD-1095 |
| List Price: | $3.99 |
| Artwork: | Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing |
| CD label art: | Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats |
| CD jewel case art: | Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card |
| DVD case art: | Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert |
Credits
Production
Book Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Meta Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Proof Listener: Betty M
Artwork
Cover: ‘The Political Lady’, 1885, by James Tissot
Inset: Cover of the 1920 first edition of The Age of Innocence
Inset: Photo of Edith Wharton from The World's Work, 1905, artist unknown
The Recordings
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The Recordings
These recordings were made using the author’s original published work, which is in the public domain. The readings were recorded by members of Librivox.org, which has generously made the recordings available to the public domain. While Librivox condones the sale and distribution of these recordings, it is not associated with the management or operations of MP3 Audiobook Classics. The audio files have been lightly edited and have been engineered using professional audio tools for maximum sonic quality. We spend considerable time and effort to ensure the recordings are free of noise, equalized for maximum listener pleasure, and that tracks are leveled and normalized to provide a consistent listening experience.
Table of Contents
| Track | Chapter | Length |
| 1 | 01 - Book 1 Chapter 01 | 13:56 |
| 2 | 02 - Book 1 Chapter 02 | 11:40 |
| 3 | 03 - Book 1 Chapter 03 | 13:17 |
| 4 | 04 - Book 1 Chapter 04 | 10:38 |
| 5 | 05 - Book 1 Chapter 05 | 17:39 |
| 6 | 06 - Book 1 Chapter 06 | 15:04 |
| 7 | 07 - Book 1 Chapter 07 | 12:21 |
| 8 | 08 - Book 1 Chapter 08 | 14:43 |
| 9 | 09 - Book 1 Chapter 09 | 23:02 |
| 10 | 10 - Book 1 Chapter 10 | 18:13 |
| 11 | 11 - Book 1 Chapter 11 | 15:43 |
| 12 | 12 - Book 1 Chapter 12 | 22:15 |
| 13 | 13 - Book 1 Chapter 13 | 12:32 |
| 14 | 14 - Book 1 Chapter 14 | 13:05 |
| 15 | 15 - Book 1 Chapter 15 | 19:54 |
| 16 | 16 - Book 1 Chapter 16 | 18:01 |
| 17 | 17 - Book 1 Chapter 17 | 18:27 |
| 18 | 18 - Book 1 Chapter 18 | 22:02 |
| 19 | 19 - Book 2 Chapter 19 | 20:09 |
| 20 | 20 - Book 2 Chapter 20 | 22:17 |
| 21 | 21 - Book 2 Chapter 21 | 24:32 |
| 22 | 22 - Book 2 Chapter 22 | 16:46 |
| 23 | 23 - Book 2 Chapter 23 | 18:37 |
| 24 | 24 - Book 2 Chapter 24 | 10:41 |
| 25 | 25 - Book 2 Chapter 25 | 16:32 |
| 26 | 26 - Book 2 Chapter 26 | 19:58 |
| 27 | 27 - Book 2 Chapter 27 | 12:37 |
| 28 | 28 - Book 2 Chapter 28 | 11:54 |
| 29 | 29 - Book 2 Chapter 29 | 13:18 |
| 30 | 30 - Book 2 Chapter 30 | 17:09 |
| 31 | 31 - Book 2 Chapter 31 | 21:18 |
| 32 | 32 - Book 2 Chapter 32 | 16:50 |
| 33 | 33 - Book 2 Chapter 33 | 28:03 |
| 34 | 34 - Book 2 Chapter 34 | 31:24 |
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