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This episode is brought to you by Quiet Sunday Afternoons. Tonight we'll be reading from the Age of Innocence a

1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize.

The story is set in the 1870s in Upper Class Guildedilded age New York City.

Let's get cozy.

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Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, of your bed. Now take a few deep breaths. Book 1, on a January evening of the early 70s, Christin Nelson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the construction in remote metropolitan distances above the 40s of a new opera house

which should compete in costliness and splendor with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to

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