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The Age of InnocenceOn the coverThe Gallery of H.M.S. 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth), James Tissot, 1876
The Age of Innocence
In the rigid, gilded society of 1870s New York, a young lawyer engaged to a perfect, conventional bride falls for her unconventional, scandal-touched cousin, and must choose between passion and the tribe. Wharton’s Pulitzer-winning masterpiece.
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A perfectly poised, quietly devastating novel about the cost of doing the done thing, and the loves we give up to belong. Wharton's prose is a scalpel wrapped in silk.
SettingNew York, 1870s
The tiny, ferociously conformist world of Old New York's ruling families in the 1870s, where an unwritten code governed every dinner and glance, and to defy it was social death.