Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of
Innocence depicts with masterful irony and nostalgic detail a vanished
world--the glittering, elite society of "Gilded Age" New York--at the
height of its power and on the brink of its demise. When Newland
Archer's comfortable future is thrown into uncertainty by the arrival of
the brazenly unconventional Ellen Olenska, subtle consequences unfold as
Wharton's characters navigate conflicts of passion and propriety,
demonstrating the genius of a great American novelist "at the top of her
game" (Ta-Nehisi Coates).