The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

About: Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, The Age of Innocence tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite May Welland, when he meets her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal.

This novel, published in 1920, made Edith Wharton the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for literature.

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