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All Booked Up, the library's adult book club, has chosen Edith Wharton's An Age of Innocence for discussion in May. Copies of this classic are available at the Circulation Desk.

Published in 1920, "the work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal. In the story Newland Archer, though engaged to May Welland, a beautiful and proper fellow member of elite society, is attracted to Ellen Olenska, a former member of their circle who has been living in Europe but who has left her husband under mysterious circumstances and returned to her family's New York milieu. May prevails by subtly adhering to the conventions of that world. The novel was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. " (From The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature )

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