Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is a masterful portrait of love, duty, and social constraint in Gilded Age New York. Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to the proper and beautiful May Welland, finds his world unsettled by the arrival of May's cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, whose independence and disregard for convention challenge the rigid codes of their society. Torn between passion and propriety, Archer must confront the cost of desire in a world that prizes appearances above truth.

Elegant, incisive, and quietly devastating, The Age of Innocence remains Wharton's most celebrated novel-a timeless study of morality, class, and the sacrifices demanded by society.

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