Author: Edith Wharton
First Published: 1920, in the Pictorial Review
The first chapter of the Age of Innocence is one of those magical first chapters that contains the entirety of the book within it. In fact, it holds a single sentence that contains the entire book:
He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a [...]
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