The Age of Innocence, Paperback/Edith Wharton

Description The intelligent and charming Newland Archer - a member of one of New York's most prominent families - is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Newland begins to doubt all that once seemed so natural to him.An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York high society in the 1870s - the world in which Edith Wharton grew up - The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order. About the Author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American author best known for the novel The Age of Innocence , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making her the first female winner of the award.