The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness.
The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, Gilded-Age New York City.
The novel is noted for attention to detail and its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East Coast American upper class lived, as well as for the social tragedy of its plot.
Old New York is a collection of four novellas revolving aro.
E-artnow The age of innocence & old new york: tales of the big apple: false dawn, the old maid, the spark & new year's day/edith wharton
