Facts about Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

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   Newland Archer, the protagonist of The Age of Innocence, is torn between his fiancée May Welland and the unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska.

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   Edith Wharton originally serialized The Age of Innocence in Pictorial Review magazine before it was published as a complete novel.

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   The novel was adapted into a celebrated 1993 film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Newland Archer.

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   Set in 1870s New York, The Age of Innocence explores the rigid social conventions of Gilded Age upper-class Manhattan society through protagonist Newland Archer.

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   Published in 1920, The Age of Innocence won Edith Wharton the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, making her the first woman to receive that award.

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