The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple\'s impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness.
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In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for the earlier, more brutal and critical, "The House of Mirth".
Though the novel questions the assumptions and mores of turn of the century New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution.
The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple\'s impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness