The Age of Innocence

In her 1920 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton depicts with humor, wisdom and elegance the restrictions of life in the highest echelons of Old New York society. When the lovely and enigmatic Countess Olenska enters the social scene, Newland Archer’s world is changed forever. Newland is forced to choose between his feelings for the Countess and her cousin, his docile fiancé, May Welland.