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《纯真年代》是美国女作家伊迪丝·华顿创作的长篇小说，也是其代表作。故事的主要情节发生在19世纪70年代末80年代初的纽约上流社会，讲述的是贵族青年纽兰·阿彻尔与两位女性梅·韦兰和她的表姐埃伦·奥兰斯卡伯爵夫人之间无法抉择的故事。
《纯真年代》中，作家从自己亲身经历与熟悉的环境中提炼素材，塑造人物，将作品题材根置于深厚的现实土壤之中。尤其通过博福特命运浮沉这一线索与主人公爱情悲剧的主线相互映衬，使一个看似寻常的爱情故事具备了深刻的社会现实意义。在人物塑造方面，作家淡化人物社会行为、着力表现人物内心世界的尝试无疑是对现实主义创作手法的发展。 该作获得1921年美国普利策文学奖。
The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.
In 1920, The Age of Innocence was published twice; first in four parts, July – October, in the Pictorial Review magazine, and then by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London.
The book was warmly received; the Times Book Review considered it "a brilliant panorama of New York's 45 years ago. The novel is in demand mostly at public libraries and a best seller in the bookstores." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Age of Innocence 58th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2011, New York Magazine critic Sam Anderson named it "the single greatest New York novel."