The Age of Innocence

«The Age of Innocence» — is a story of a love triangle and at the same time a broad picture of New York's high society at the end of the 1870s. Newland Archer — an ambitious and respectable lawyer, leads... an ordinary life, is about to marry the beautiful May Welland, but deep down he desires passion amidst his routine days. However, from Europe, May's cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, returns to New York after a public scandal with her husband. Ellen Olenska is very beautiful, her entire image is shrouded in mysteries, and for conservative New York society, her behavior and views are unacceptable. Newland is enchanted by Ellen, he falls in love with her... Edith Wharton — the author of more than twenty novels and ten collections of stories, the first female writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Works by Wharton such as «The House of Mirth», «Ethan Frome», «The Age of Innocence», and «The Fruit of the Tree» are part of the «golden fund» of American literature. The novel «The Age of Innocence» served as the basis for the film of the same name directed by Martin Scorsese, which received acclaim and popularity.