内容简介

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Set in the elegant, rigid society of 1870s New York, it follows Newland Archer, a wealthy attorney engaged to the conventional May Welland. When May's exotic cousin Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, separated from her husband, Archer is drawn to her free-spirited nature and worldly sophistication. The story explores themes of duty, passion, and the conflict between individual desire and social expectations, offering a brilliant critique of the Gilded Age aristocracy.