The Age of Innocence Review

Romance, Scandal, and a love triangle; a timeless story line which makes this novel a classic. Wharton's 1920 romance touches on the difficulties of individuality, reputation, and emotional repression in New York's restricting high society. The depiction of Newland Archer's struggle to break away from his world in New York's elite along with his choice between desire and honor is remarkable; Archer and Olenska's hopeless romance is heartwarming and intense and archers righteous decision opens the readers eyes into the world of class and honorable appearance governed by ancient rules and rituals that is New York's high society. It is Wharton's anthropological study on her own world that makes this novel a ust read for all.

The Age of Innocence (December 2010 trailer)