Age of Innocence - Book with Audio CD Author:Edith Wharton Black Cat Reading and Training is a 6-level series of richly illustrated readers suitable for older teenagers, young adults and adults. It offers original stories and retold classics, both fiction and non-fiction. Each title integrates a story with four-skills activities written in the style of Cambridge ESOL examinations, as well as in... more »formative background information to provide students with an enjoyable and rewarding, all-in-one reading experience. Audio recordings are available for all titles.
In 1870s New York Countess Ellen Olenska causes scandal and embarrassment when she decides to free herself of an unhappy marriage by divorcing her husband. Greatly disapproved of by her family, she can only count on the support of her cousin's fiance Newland Archer, who falls in love with her and tries to persuade her to start a new life together with him.« less