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The Age of Innocence

New York in the 1870s runs on what is not said, and the opera house is where it gets decided. You play Newland Archer, engaged to May Welland and perfectly satisfied about it until May's cousin returns from a bad European marriage and receives you in a drawing room arranged for talking rather than display. Eighteen chapters in which almost nothing happens aloud and everything is settled anyway.

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Chapters

1. The Age of InnocenceAcademy of Music
2. News for the Beaufort BallBeaufort House
3. After the Engagement CallsThe Archer Dinner
4. The Sealed RefusalsMadison Avenue Dinner
5. Tomorrow's AdviceWest Twenty-Third Street
6. The Sunday CallLetterblair's Office
7. The Ribbon and the LetterWallack's Theatre
8. The Hudson PostmarkSkuytercliff and St Augustine
9. The Wedding Still DelayedNew York Before Easter
10. Tuesday After EasterGrace Church
11. The First Married FireEurope and Newport
12. The Sail at Lime RockPortsmouth and Boston
13. The Point Arley InnPoint Arley and New York
14. The Emissary's AppealThanksgiving and Wall Street
15. A Name at Western UnionWashington Express
16. The Promise from BostonFifth Avenue and the Museum
17. The Private AfternoonOpera and the Archer Dinner
18. After Ellen SailedParis

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