I chose this book for our book club when we decided to read a "classic." We had visited "the Mount" the Edith Wharton home in western Massachusetts last summer and I bought the book.
I had a hard time at first, but I really enjoyed it in the end. It reminded me of the Gilded Age on HBO. Set in the same period in the same city - NYC.
It was a great depiction of a society in the midst of change. There were a lot of descriptive paragraphs of what the city was like, what the interiors were like, how the people dressed, etc. But more important, it depicted NY society at that time. There were too many characters to keep up with, but I managed to make a connection with some of them. Some in my book club felt very differently about the book and the characters than I did. Made our conversation quite lively and interesting!
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