by Edith Wharton · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194792165
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«The Age of Innocence» is Edith Wharton's novel adapted in the Oxford Bookworms Library series from OUP Oxford, in paperback (104 pages, in English).
In the high society of New York in the 1870s, Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland. The arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, separated from a Polish count and received with scandal, confronts him with a dilemma: to help her or to follow the social norms of his circle, while a friendship dangerous for a man about to marry grows.
Part of the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 5, with a vocabulary of 1,800 words, a text of 24,820 words and level B2 of the CEFR.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language and for readers who wish to read a classic in a graded version.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
