The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

By Edith Wharton
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“Wharton’s characters leap out from the pages and...become very real. You know their hearts, souls, and yearnings and the price they pay for those yearnings.”

San Francisco Examiner

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

O Magazine Pick of 25 Books Every Woman Should Read

Town & Country Magazine Pick

An Electric Literature Pick of Books about the Burden of Female Beauty Standards

Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high society life she had before her marriage. Her family and former friends, however, are shocked by the idea of divorce within their social circle, and she finds herself snubbed by her own class. Ellen and Newland fall in love and must choose between passion and conventions.