The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton; Elif Batuman (Foreword by); Sarah Blackwood (Introduction by); Laura Dluzynski Quinn (Notes by)

Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high so...