The Age of Innocence

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, is -s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people -dreaded scandal more than disease.- This is Newland Archer-s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, is -s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people -dreaded scandal more than disease.- This is Newland Archer-s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her.

Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life-or mercilessly destroy it.