The Age Of Innocence With her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence 1920, Wharton recreated the Old New York of her own childhood, in a moving tale of passion and desire. Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory to the name of America, and this is her best book. It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century ... a permanent addition to literature Here is a novel whose basis is a story. It begins on a night at the opera. The characters are introduced naturally every action and every conver