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1905 •
Lily Bart is 29 an age that, in New York City's high society, sees her declining from a youthful beauty to spinster. Her struggles are an indictment of "an irresponsible, grasping and morally corrupt upper class."
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
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1920 •
Newland Archer finds himself falling in love with a mysterious Countess, forcing him to make a life-changing decision between her and the conventional May Welland.
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1922 •
Alcohol, greed, and the New York nightlife take their toll on a rocky marriage in this, Fitzgerald's second novel.
Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos
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1925 •
Painting an "expressionistic picture of New York" from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, Dos Passos examines the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants. Described as "the best modern book about New York."
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