The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton's pulitzer-prize winning novel tells the story of the beautiful, misplaced Countess Ellen Olenska, who, after fleeing the brilliance of European court society and the neglect of a rakish husband, tries to rebuild her life in her native New York. Set in the late nineteenth-century, The Age Of Innocence is a novel of love and loss, duty and desire. It is an American masterpiece.