upper class

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The age of innocence

1968
A portrayal of New York society in the 1870's where money counted for less than manners and morals.

The Astor orphan

a memoir
Alexandra Aldrich offers her own words about growing up in poverty and yet living in a mansion on over four hundred acres of property--her father, the owner of Rokeby mansion, inherited the land, but not the fortune, of the Astor family. Aldrich explains how she managed to educate herself and find happiness in such a home, until her father began cheating on her mother, and how she escaped the Astor house.

The return to Camelot

chivalry and the English gentleman
1981

The age of innocence

1992
A portrayal of New York society in the 1870s where money counted for less than manners and morals.

The great Gatsby

1995
The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

Babylon revisited and other stories

1996
Contains ten short stories written by Fitzgerald originally published between 1920 and 1937 focusing on wealthy, upper class people and their relationships.

The age of innocence

2008
Newland Archer, a young lawyer in upper-crust 1870's New York, becomes a victim of social expectations and restrictions when he becomes infatuated with his docile fiancee's nonconformist cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska.

The age of innocence

1998
A portrayal of New York society in the 1870s where money counted for less than manners and morals.

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