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The very good people didn’t convince me; I felt they’d never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands—and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I’d never known before—and it’s better than anything I’ve known.”(page 141)  \n“It’s worth everything, isn’t it, to keep one’s intellectual liberty, not to enslave one’s powers of appreciation, one’s critical independence?”(page 164)  \nHis whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.  \n(page 185)  \nIn the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.  \n(page 249)  \nIt was the old New York way, of taking life “without effusion of blood”; the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than“scenes,” except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.  \n(page 272)  \nThe worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.  \n(pages 284-285)  \nHe had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.  \n(page 289)  \nPublished by Barnes & Noble Books  \n122 Fifth Avenue  \nNew York, NY 10011  \n[www.barnesandnoble.com/classics](www.barnesandnoble.com/classics)  \nThe Age of Innocence was first published in 1920.  \nPublished in 2004 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction, Notes, Biography, Inspired By, Comments & Questions, and For Further Reading.  \nIntroduction, Notes, and For Further Reading Copyright @ 2004 by Maureen Howard.  \nNote on Edith Wharton, The World of Edith Wharton and The Age of Innocence, The Inspiration for The Age of Innocence, and Comments & Questions Copyright @ 2004 by Barnes & Noble, Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.  \nBarnes & Noble Classics and ","cbCaimOJACoiowRd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimOJACoiowRd","pdf",1985661,342,"English","# The World of Edith Wharton and The Age of Innocence\n# Introduction\n# Book One\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17\n## Chapter 18\n# Book Two\n## Chapter 19\n## Chapter 20\n## Chapter 21\n## Chapter 22\n## Chapter 23\n## Chapter 24\n## Chapter 25\n## Chapter 26\n## Chapter 27\n## Chapter 28\n## Chapter 29\n## Chapter 30\n## Chapter 31\n## Chapter 32\n## Chapter 33\n## Chapter 34\n# Endnotes\n# An Inspiration for The Age of Innocence Comments & Questions\n# For Further Reading","[{\"question\":\"What central conflict shapes Newland Archer’s choices in The Age of Innocence?\",\"answer\":\"Newland Archer struggles between keeping intellectual and personal liberty and conforming to a society that demands loyalty, decency, and protection from scandal.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the novel portray “Society” and its rules?\",\"answer\":\"Society is depicted as an atmosphere of faint implications and delicate codes where understanding happens without direct explanation, and where behavior is judged by taste and propriety.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does the theme of duty play in the characters’ lives?\",\"answer\":\"Duty can be the worst burden because it can make a person unfit for anything else, binding future possibilities to what is socially expected.\"}]","The Age of Innocence - A novel by Edith Wharton | PDF",527]