The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

"Each time you happen to me all over again."

Newland Archer is a wealthy lawyer engaged to the perfect society girl, May Welland. But his life is upended by the return of May's cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, who has fled a disastrous marriage in Europe. Ellen's unconventional spirit captivates Newland, forcing him to choose between the duty of his social world and the passion of a life he never dared to imagine.

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a masterful satire of Old New York society. It is a tragic romance that explores the crushing weight of social convention and the price of conformity.