The Age of Innocence: Chapters 10-14

"How little practice he had had in dealing with unusual situations!"

Welcome to Week 4!

I’m still getting settled back home after a very exciting trip to Chicago — where I presented my research on Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth with the Edith Wharton Society at the American Literature Association. (Squee!!!!!)

It was so much fun and I talk a bit about it in this week’s audio.

I’m also so excited to dive into the comments with you all, as we do each week, to learn about what you’re tracking and noticing and closely reading in the latest adventures of our dearly disillusioned Newland Archer.

And hey! If you haven’t yet joined in the read-a-long, it’s not too late to catch up. Take the novel at your own pace and access each reading guide as you’re ready for them.

Let’s go!

A brief summary

Get back into this week’s reading with an audio summary of this week’s chapters. Because these chapters are so jam-packed with detail, I focused on the main theme I am tracking, and talked a bit about how I see the theme — of Newland’s relationship to reality — evolving…