The Age of Innocence

<p>Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York a time when society people dreaded scandal more than disease. </p><p><br></p><p>This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage Archer falls deeply in love with her. </p><p><br></p><p>Torn between duty and passion Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life-or mercilessly destroy it.</p>