A tragic and piercing love story that shook the very foundations of New York high society in the 1870s, carefully copying the manners of Victorian England.
This is the story of pure and bright feelings that the young Newland Archer experienced for the brilliant, educated, and unhappy Countess Ellen Olenska—while he was engaged to the proper May Welland. Yet the hypocritical society hurried to turn these feelings into a target for gossip and attacks…