New York, New York | The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, earned Edith Wharton the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - making her the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class Gilded Age New York City. With a 1993 film adaptation directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring a star cast and a new Netflix adaptation in the works, The Age of Innocence is more present than ever. Your hosts - bookish friends Mandy & Fanny - want to know why. In this episode, they explore the love triangle at the heart of the novel and unpack the themes of love, duty, and social expectation of 1870s high society.Through the Pages is a podcast in which your hosts, Fanny and Mandy, read books that are considered classics, to figure out if they're worth your while - and to discover why they are amongst so-called "classics". Because books only truly come to live when you talk about them.