The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults

Taesha Glasgow

Stories To Help You Sleep, Unknown, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Just Sleep, Bedtime Stories For Adults

4 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Can't sleep? Drift off to The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Published in 1920, it is the story set in the "Gilded Age" of New York City. In this episode, Newland Archer has just become engaged to May Welland. However, the appearance of her scandalous cousin at the Opera threatens to upend the joyous occasion.

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0:00.0	Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you
0:17.1	an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep.
0:34.1	Occasionally, we will run ads in order to cover the costs of the production of the podcast.
0:42.0	Rest assured, there will be no ads during or after the story.
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0:59.3	Visit JustSleeppodcast.com
1:02.7	slash support for more information.
1:09.8	Do, do, do, bumper.
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1:50.2	Tonight I will be reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
1:58.2	So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.
2:03.6	Chapter 1 On a January evening of the early 70s, Christine Nielsen was singing in Faust at the Academy
2:11.8	of Music in New York.
2:14.2	Though there was already talk of the erection in remote metropolitan distances above the forties,
2:20.8	of a new opera house which should compete in costliness and splendour
2:25.5	with those of the great European capitals,
2:28.7	the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter
2:33.1	in the shabby red and gold boxes of the
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