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The Age of Innocence
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Set in 1870s New York high society, this novel follows a man torn between his conventional fiancée and an unconventional woman who challenges the era's rigid social codes. Suitable for readers interested in classic literary fiction and stories of romance and social constraint.
Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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