Edith Wharton THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton (Edith Wharton Complete Collected Works--All Major Works) Wharton Library

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's 12th novel, published in 1920, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s' New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. -Wikipedia.com