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Oxford Bookworms Library Level 5: The Age of Innocence

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The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

24,820 words

1870年代のニューヨーク社交界、ポーランド人伯爵との結婚に失敗したと噂される伯爵夫人エレン・オレンスカが加わった。形式を重んじる社交界において、夫を捨てた女性が受け入れられることはなかった。ニューランド・アーチャーは若いメイ・ウエルランドと婚約中だったが、美しい魅惑的な伯爵夫人の相談にのるようになり、やがて友だちづきあいが始まる。しかし若い男性、とりわけ結婚を間近に控えている男にとって、美しく不幸な女性との友情は危険なものだった。

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.

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