The Age of Innocence

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The Age of Innocence is the most famous novel by an American writer Edith Wharton, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1921 and became the first woman to win this prize.It is a fascinating story about a lawyer Newland Archer, who just before his wedding with respectable May Welland, falls in love with her cousin Countess Ellen Olenska, whose uneasy and sad life resembles a lot the life of Wharton).This love goes through the further life of Archer determining his relations with May as well as the entire story of their marriage.