The Age of Innocence , Edith Wharton\'s most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War.
Newland Archer, Wharton\'s protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but he also recognize.
Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
The Age of Innocence , Edith Wharton\'s most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War