The Age of Innocence (THE GREAT CLASSICS LIBRARY)

This novel from 1920 won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. It is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s. The New York Times Book Review called it "a brilliant panorama of New York 45 years ago." In 1993, Martin Scorcese made it into a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder. It is considered one of the major American novels.