The Age of Innocence, 1950s ed.
This classic literary portrait of New York life in the 1870s earned Edith Wharton the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a female author upon its original publication in 1921. The Age of Innocence is an indispensable addition to any modern library. The edition featured above is covered in a book jacket that draws attention to the heart of the novel: the tensions between the artifice and reality, and between expectation and truth.