Age of Innocence Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library

Age of Innocence Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9780194630610
ISBN-13 : 0194630617
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Age of Innocence Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library by : Edith Wharton

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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.

Age of Innocence - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library

Age of Innocence - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9780194631365
ISBN-13 : 0194631362
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Age of Innocence - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library by : Edith Wharton

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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.

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: The Age of Innocence

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: The Age of Innocence
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 0194792161
ISBN-13 : 9780194792165
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: The Age of Innocence by : Edith Wharton

Word count 24,820 CD: American English

The Great Gatsby - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Great Gatsby - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9780194631044
ISBN-13 : 0194631044
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Gatsby - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library by : F. Scott Fitzgerald

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It captures perfectly the Jazz Age of the 1920s, and goes deep into the hollow heart of the American Dream.

Old New York

Old New York
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780743454285
ISBN-13 : 0743454286
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Old New York by : Edith Wharton

Four novellas by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capturing New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s. The four short novels in this collection are set in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, each one revealing the codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton's. Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, these tales are vintage Wharton, dealing boldly with such themes as infidelity, illegitimacy, jealousy, the class system, and the condition of women in society. Included in this remarkable quartet are False Dawn, which concerns the stormy relationship between a domineering father and his son; The Old Maid, the best known of the four, in which a young woman's secret illegitimate child is adopted by her best friend—with devastating results; The Spark, about a young man's moral rehabilitation, which is "sparked" by a chance encounter with Walt Whitman; and New Year's Day, an O. Henryesque tale of a married woman suspected of adultery. Old New York is Wharton at her finest.

The Bridge and Other Love Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Bridge and Other Love Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 64
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ISBN-10 : 9780194630849
ISBN-13 : 0194630846
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bridge and Other Love Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library by : Christine Lindop

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop. Luke is a good-looking young man, but he's not very clever with words. Gemma is clever with words, but what does she want? Lucy and Becky are good friends, but what about Sam? He makes wonderful cakes, but does he make mistakes too? Nina and Dragan are in love, so deeply in love, but they live in the wrong place, at the wrong time . . . All love stories have moments of happiness, pain, misunderstanding, laughter, and sometimes great sadness. But love will nearly always find a way . . .

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Great Expectations

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Great Expectations
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 0194792269
ISBN-13 : 9780194792264
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Great Expectations by : Charles Dickens

Word count 24,045 Bestseller

Three Novels of New York

Three Novels of New York
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 785
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ISBN-10 : 9780143106555
ISBN-13 : 0143106554
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Three Novels of New York by : Edith Wharton

For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention. This volume brings together her best-loved novels, all set in New York. The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, who needs a rich husband but refuses to marry without both love and money. The Custom of the Country follows the marriages and affairs of Undine Spragg, who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence concerns the passionate bond that develops between the newly engaged Newland Archer and his finacée's cousin, the Countess Olenska, new to New York and newly divorced. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Garden Party and Other Stories - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library

The Garden Party and Other Stories - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9780194631631
ISBN-13 : 019463163X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Garden Party and Other Stories - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library by : Katherine Mansfield

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Rosalie Kerr. Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if you are a child from the wrong social class . . . or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.