The Age of Innocence

By Edith Wharton, Clare West

Subjects: Readers, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Upper class, Problems, exercises, Readers (Adult), English language, Fiction, family life, English language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Separated people, Reading comprehension, Married people, Textbooks for foreign speakers, Married people, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)

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