Age of Innocence

Level 4 Penguin Readers

Edith Wharton

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Penguin Books Ltd
15 September 2022

ELT literature & fiction readers; Classic fiction (Children's&YA); Romance & relationships stories (Children's&YA); Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language; English as a Second Language

Series: Penguin Readers

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

The Age of Innocence,

a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Newland Archer is going to marry the sweet, pretty May Welland. Everyone thinks that they are perfect together. Then, May's beautiful cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska, shocks everyone by leaving her husband and moving to New York. When Newland meets Ellen, he starts to question his future with May.

By: Edith Wharton
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 77g
ISBN: 9780241553367
ISBN 10: 0241553369
Series: Penguin Readers
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 15 September 2022
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Young adult , Children/juvenile , Children's (6-12) , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edith Wharton (Author) Edith Wharton was born on 24 January 1862 in New York. She was educated in both America and Europe. In 1885 she married Edward Robbins Wharton. In 1899 she published her first work, a collection of stories called The Greater Inclination. In 1900 she published her first novel, The Touchstone. She wrote many other works including travel writing, home decoration manuals, short stories and her famous novels The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920). She lived in France from 1907. She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1916 for her work helping refugees there during the war. Edith Wharton died on 11 August 1937.