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This is one of the most significant literary phenomena of the first half of the twentieth century.

A tragic and poignant love story that shook the foundations of high society in 1870s New York, carefully copying the mores of Victorian England.

The story of the pure and bright feeling that young Newland Archer experienced for the brilliant, educated and unhappy Countess Ellen Olensky and which the sanctimonious society hastened to make a target for gossip and attacks ...