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"The Age of Innocence" is the representative work of the famous American writer Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The film of the same name is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and others. The main plot of the book takes place in the upper class society of New York in the late 1870s and early 1880s. It was the place where Wharton spent her childhood and youth, where she grew up, entered society, became engaged and disengaged, and then married Edward Wharton of Boston, where she spent the first few years of her marriage. Forty years later, as a novelist, she looks back at the society that raised her and restrained her. Her feelings are complex, with both cordial attachment and sober criticism.

Innocence means "pure and sincere", as opposed to "sophisticated and smooth". Innocence may be a piece of chocolate in childhood, a secret love in adolescence, or a no-turning relationship between friends. Innocence is like a flower in life, which everyone yearns for, but is often destroyed by reality. Time can dilute many things in the past, but the innocence and beauty in my heart bloom like flowers, both near and far. Edith Wharton's classic "The Age of Innocence" tells the story of the entanglement between innocent love and ideals and social reality. The author also won the most influential award in the United States for this book: the Pulitzer Prize.

This book is Edith Wharton's first novel that caused a great sensation. It was first published in 1905 and sold 140,000 copies within two months of its release. This is a social novel and a text of American naturalistic literature. As soon as the novel came out, it caused a great response in the "New York Times" at that time, calling it "a novel with extraordinary shocking power". The author places his protagonist Lily in the context of New York's upper class society in the 1870s, and shows the tragic life of this woman who is full of inner tangles and struggles between social customs and traditions.

"Once Upon a Time in New York: A Lady·Translation of Project Gutenberg" is a modern and contemporary novel written by Edith Wharton. It is written about the upper class society in New York in the 1870s. The heroine, Mrs. Hazeldean, was found in a hotel on Fifth Avenue with another man. She was cast aside by the rigid New York society at that time and was considered a "bad woman." But there is another hidden truth. Mrs. Hazeldean is actually a heroic woman with a spirit of self-sacrifice.