Edith Wharton was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for her tragic and piercing love story. In 1993, the novel was adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.
This novel will interest all fans of TV series "Downton Abbey" and "The Gilded Age," because it describes the fundamentals of New York high society in the 1870s—society that copied the manners of Victorian England.
It’s a story of sincere love that young Newland Archer experienced for Countess Ellen Olenska, while he was engaged to May Welland. But society treated these feelings cruelly and quickly made them a target of gossip and attacks.