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 in the late 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 amid his routine days. However, the cousin of May, Countess Ellen Olenska, returns to New York from Europe after a public scandal with her husband. Ellen Olenska is very beautiful, her entire persona is shrouded in mystery, and for the conservative New York society, her behavior and views are unacceptable. Newland is enchanted by Ellen, he falls in love with her...
 
Edith Wharton — is the author of more than twenty novels and ten collections of stories, the first female writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Works by Wharton such as «The House of Mirth», «Ethan Frome», «The Age of Innocence», «The Fruit of the Tree», have entered the «golden fund» of American literature. The novel «The Age of Innocence» served as the basis for the eponymous film by Martin Scorsese, which gained acclaim and popularity.