The Age of Innocence: Chapter 1

Setting the stage with visibility and scandal: "I didn't think the Mingotts would have tried it on."

Welcome to Week 1 of our slow read of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel, The Age of Innocence, a novel that Professor and author Arielle Zibrak deems “the most underrated highly rated novel in the history of American letters,” and which is “regularly cited as a favorite text by present-day authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Beth Nguyen.”¹

If you…