The age of innocence
By: Edith Wharton ; retold by Clare West.
Contributors: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Edition: [Simplified ed.].
Series: Oxford Bookworms Library ; Stage 5, Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780194792165
Subjects: Readers (Adult); English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers; Reading comprehension -- Problems, exercises, etc; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Upper class -- Fiction; Separated people -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Textbooks for foreign speakers; Problems, exercises, etc; Fiction
Description: "Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Arthur is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow - especially a young man who is soon to be married." --Back cover
Notes: "First published in Oxford Bookworms, 2006"--T.p. verso.