The Age of Innocence (Pre-recorded MP3 player, Ubr)

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, and she won hers for The Age of Innocence, an elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870s, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets Mays cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence. Archers world is always changing. A marvelous comedy of manners and morals, The Age of Innocence is a literary achievement of the highest order. It is a tale of thwarted love which is both exuberantly comic and profoundly moving. The San Francisco Examiner says, Whartons characters leap out from the pages and...become very real. You know their hearts, souls and yearnings, and the price they pay for those yearnings.