Name: Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5: The age of Innocence: 1800 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Elt)
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Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780194792165

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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5: The age of Innocence: 1800 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Elt)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0194792161

ISBN13

9780194792165

Edition No.

Synopsis "Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5: The age of Innocence: 1800 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Elt) "

The Oxford Bookworms Library offers a wide selection of readers that are adaptations of modern and classic fiction. At the lower levels there are stories written especially for the series. The books are graded at six language levels from elementary (400 word vocabulary) to advanced (2 500 word vocabulary). Vocabulary structure syntax and the information presented are all carefully controlled. Key topic vocabulary is often illustrated particularly at the lower levels. Book 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 Archer 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.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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