The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Pulitzer’s award-winning and the twelfth novel from famous Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, is a romantic drama focus on upper-class, 1870 New York, where the young and handsome heir Newland Archer, is engaged to the, apparently sweet and innocent May Welland. Later on, Archer is engulfed in a steamy romance affair with May’s cousin, countess Ellen Olenska, recently arrived from Europe. The book was released in four parts publications by 1920.

• The has had many adaptation, been the most recognizable the 1993 Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, starring Daniel Day Lewis in the role of Newland Archer, Winnoa Ryder as May Welland and Michelle Pfeiffer as Countess Ellen Olenska.