Age of Innocence

?? In a world ruled by appearances, the heart must learn to hide. In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton paints a luminous portrait of Gilded Age New York, a society polished on the surface yet suffocating beneath the weight of convention. The novel follows Newland Archer, a man engaged to the gentle and proper May Welland, whose world is upended by the arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska a wo...