The Age of Innocence

Set against the opulent backdrop of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton’s "The Age of Innocence" intricately weaves a narrative of love, duty, and societal expectation. Employing her signature prose, Wharton masterfully explores the tensions between individual desires and the rigid conventions of upper-class society. Through the story of Newland Archer, caught between his fiancée May Welland and th...