The Age of Innocence

The great American classic set in the Gilded Age Among New York’s elite, no scandal is greater than an unbefitting love. Shortly before his marriage to the charming and innocent May Welland, young lawyer Newland Archer finds himself irresistibly drawn to her cousin, the captivatingly unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska. Set against the backdrop of 1870s New York, their story unfolds into a powerful drama of desire, duty, and social expectation. Widely regarded as Edith Wharton’s finest achievement, this timeless novel earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. A love triangle in New York high society during the Gilded Age Masterpiece of storytelling and characterisation Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about forbidden love in 19th-century New York